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...commanding officer of three Level 2 medical facilities--field hospitals providing emergency medical treatment and surgery--just behind the front lines in Fallujah, Ramadi and Taqaddum, Pennington displayed all those virtues. She was responsible for overseeing the treatment of mass casualties coming through the door of the surgical units, day or night, including U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers, civilians and insurgents; and transporting the most severely wounded on emergency helicopter flights in complete darkness to avoid enemy fire, all while maintaining the safety and morale of medical personnel under frequent attack...
EVERYONE WAS EXPECTING him to sit and watch from the sidelines. But moments after the Green Bay Packers' first-string receiver separated a shoulder, Max McGee was forced to borrow a teammate's helmet before racing onto the field. The former Air Force pilot made history that day, catching the first touchdown pass in Super Bowl history--leading the Packers to a 35-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in 1967. After 12 seasons, McGee retired, refocusing his energy on Chi-Chi's, the Mexican-restaurant chain he co-founded, which operated throughout the U.S. until 2004. He died...
...trees to get reception,” Wood said. “We also wrote each other a hundred letters in those months.”Wood proposed to Rossel when she came to visit him in Tanzania, and the two moved to Copenhagen after he completed his field work. They were married this August in Scandinavia at the estate of Karen Blixen, the author of the memoir “Out of Africa.”Wood was planning to move to Denmark permanently in January after finishing his last semester at Harvard and hoped to find a position...
...Kennedy’s colleagues, Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, said he believed Brown had made a good decision. “He’s a great scholar, very deeply read in social sciences and philosophy. He has considerable knowledge and work in the field of international relations,” Heymann said. “He’ll be wonderful at Brown and he’ll be a big loss...
...said University of Pennsylvania professor Josef W. Wegner, who conducted research with Rossel in Egypt. “It was wonderful to have such a sparkling personality out in the Egyptian desert,” he said. Rossel, who is a Danish citizen, had also conducted field research in Syria, Turkey, and Sudan, said one of her advisers at Harvard, Richard H. Meadow ’68. Rossel came to Harvard after receiving her bachelor’s degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1999. She earned a master’s in anthropology in 2002 and would have...