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...March 5, 2007. In the week before his suicide, Andersson was ordered to write three separate essays explaining his failure to line up prospective recruits. A fellow recruiter later told Army investigators that commanders "humiliated" this decorated battlefield soldier during a training session: "He was under a constant grind - incredible pressure. He just became numb." (See pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
...said. “They were not able to incorporate composting in their dish rooms then, and they still have not been able because of structural reasons and space.” Eliot, Leverett and the Quad houses do not have Somat food waste pulpers, which grind excess food down automatically. In order to start composting manually, Pforzheimer dining hall workers will set food waste aside in yellow composting barrels without having the waste grinded. Food waste to be composted—either made into pulp by machine or manually collected—is bagged and put into marked barrels...
...mills of justice grind slowly, and sometimes not very finely," says Paeffgen dryly. The twins disagree. "We are proud of the German legal system and grateful," they told Berlin's daily Der Tagesspiegel through a family member after their release...
...fumed. “[O’Connor] tweaked his knee and the match should’ve been stopped. Now’s he’s banged up and we’ll see how [the knee] reacts.”O’Connor had to grind for much of the tournament, as an early matchup against Columbia’s Derek Sickles required extra time. After a 4-4 tie in regulation, O’Connor showed his determination with an overtime score.“Those [close bouts] are the kind of things that remind...
...minority, the ideological divides among the faculty also hamstrung lateral hiring efforts for the two decades prior to Kagan’s deanship. Because a new candidate requires a two-thirds majority vote of approval in the faculty, professors who were ideologically opposed to new hires could and did grind the hiring process to a halt.In contrast, Kagan introduced an emphasis on open-minded thinking, welcoming academicians from across the political spectrum, and even hiring noted conservative and Bush administration attorney Jack L. Goldsmith. Her efforts to reach across divides were already evident during her time as editor...