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Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five alleged plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks, including confessed mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will face trial next year in a New York City federal court. Holder and President Obama say they expect prosecutors to push for the death penalty. Critics slammed the decision, claiming that the defendants' presence in New York will create a media circus and put the city at risk of another attack. Experts also noted the legal issues a civilian trial will raise--including the use of evidence obtained through waterboarding, to which Mohammed was subjected 183 times...
...kids would be upset because their TiVo wasn't working," he recalls. Arriving home from one combat mission, Waddell insisted on sleeping with a gun under his pillow. Another night, he woke up from a nightmare with his fingers wrapped around his wife's throat, her face turning blue. Marshéle had to change the sheets every morning because of her husband's night sweats. "I had an emergency evacuation plan for myself and the family," says Marshéle. "You feel physically unsafe." (See TIME's photo-essay "100 Years of the U.S. Army Reserve...
...combat hid the fact that he was suffering from severe mental trauma. The noise of the careening rides, the shrieking kids - everything roused Waddell to a state of hypervigilance typical of his worst days in combat. When an actor dressed as Goofy stuck his long, doggy muzzle into his face, Waddell recalls, "I wanted to grab Goofy by the throat." (See pictures of an Army town coping with PTSD...
...communication,” he said. “While we send out announcements over e-mail, he has an Eliot ‘Town Crier’ stand up in the dining hall and declare events over dinner. This brings us back to a time when people communicated face-to-face...
After a holiday weekend away from Cambridge, the toughest adjustment that we students face may not be from West Coast waves to East Coast ice or from snoozing to studying. Rather, the harshest reality check might have come as a punch to the stomach...