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Berman says there was a disjuncture between what they were told in training and the realities they found on the ground. Most of the training they did at Moyock "revolved around armored vehicles and operating armored vehicles," he testified. The vehicles that the Blackwater team was driving on March 31 were not armored; they had only a piece of metal behind the backseat. During training, team members were told that they would be sent to Iraq with semiautomatic M4 machine guns and Glock handguns and that larger weapons, like a belt-fed 5.56 machine gun squad automatic weapon, would...
Hofstadter's model of the self occupies a middle ground, hard won via logico-philosophical reasoning: it's neither spiritual--he's not a religious man--nor is it locked into the cold neurological materialism of cellular mechanics. To Hofstadter, the human mind is a bright, shimmering, self-sustaining miracle of philosophical bootstrappery: "vague, metaphorical, ambiguous, and sometimes exceedingly beautiful...
...students afterwards lauded Tufts’ commitment to bringing controversial speakers to campus. “I think Bacow made a good decision,” said Tufts sophomore Kanupriya Kapoor. “He has a tendency to take a firm stand on things and he held his ground even though there was opposition to this speaker.” “One of the nice things about talking to Larry is that he always gives you food for thought,” Bacow said. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
...potential of working with up-and-coming director Mennan Yapo, and the chance to play opposite Bullock, whom he affectionately terms “Sandy,” McMahon says. A ROAD AWAY FROM SEX? McMahon says “Premonition” breaks new ground for him. “Everybody’s seen me as this ‘Nip/Tuck’ guy for the last four years, but I just wanted to play something different,” he says.“I remember getting it and thinking, ‘God, I can?...
...Frisbee captain Adam Johnston. “Obviously the [track] surface is about as hard as concrete. It’s pretty dangerous, so every time you go down you have to be worried about injuries. Having that full field and the turf surface where you can hit the ground has been really good for us.”Minimization of injuries has been key this spring, a factor tied in closely with the tough weather conditions squads normally face.Men’s lacrosse, the first team to practice in the bubble, felt the effects of stronger muscles...