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...witnessed first-hand the violence and repression that SOA graduates use to govern," recounted Father Roy Bourgeios, founder of the 16-year-old organization dedicated to closing the institution, during an interview in his old home of Bolivia. An ex-U.S. Marine, Bourgeios lived as a Maryknoll priest in South America's poorest country during the dictatorship of SOA graduate Hugo Banzer in the 1970s. Bourgeois hopes to make more governments see that WHINSEC has become an anachronism, a relic of the U.S.'s big-stick foreign policy in Latin America. "A school that has no students," he says...
...epidemics that were killing or paralyzing thousands of children and adults in the U.S. each year. The nation was deep into the Depression. Money was desperately needed to provide care for polio patients as well as to support research to find a vaccine against the dreaded disease. Roosevelt knew first-hand the devastation caused by polio—he himself was affected by it in 1921, and never walked unaided again...
...mentioned in the magazine a few weeks back, HD DVD is here. I'm not just taking the word of the people at Toshiba, NBC Universal and Warner Home Video, either. I have experienced it first-hand, by connecting the HD-A1 player to a 42-inch plasma TV and a 5.1 surround-sound speaker system. When I compared the HD DVD of last year's sci-fi cult film Serenity with its DVD, the difference was powerful. I called my wife in as a witness, and she immediately noticed the richer detail and deeper color. That's just...
...this incident and how much negative attention it has brought upon our football team.” The suspensions are the first since Russell G. Schober ’08 and Desmond J. Bryant ’08 were told that they would sit out the 2005 season for violating team rules last year. The two eventually returned for the Crimson’s final two games of the season. According to Murphy, the first-hand accounts of the most recent incident were enough to force the players to sit for a game. “This has been corroborated...
...presidential—campaigns and elections. The UC is currently divided into three committees: Student Affairs Committee, Campus Life Committee, and Finance Committee. Representatives choose where to serve according to how highly they placed (first, second, or third) in their House or Yard election. Unsurprisingly, an overwhelming majority chooses the first committee; being on the Student Affairs Committee allows representatives to have first-hand contact with the administration and claim credit for advocacy successes. What follows is an overflow of uninspired representatives on the other two committees who do not get what they wanted; they are stuck controlling budgets...