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...Haditha may accelerate that gait. Like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal before it, Haditha threatens to become one of the war's signature debacles, an alleged atrocity committed by a small group of service members that comes to symbolize the enterprise's larger costs. To some U.S. officers, the impact of the daily stream of accusations about the actions of the men of Kilo Company is conjuring comparisons with the blow from the country's most searing example of battlefield misconduct, the My Lai massacre of 1968, in which U.S. soldiers slaughtered more than 500 Vietnamese. "I worry the combination...
...counts.In June 1956, the U.S. government dropped charges against Furry, and the Red Scare fizzled out at Harvard.‘TREMOR OF APPREHENSION’Back on campus, students were underneath McCarthy’s radar, and the trials of Kamin and Furry didn’t impact their daily lives.“We were isolated and somewhat naive about the damage that such accusations could cause to not only the poor unfortunates that were hauled up there, but also their colleagues,” says Ells, who is also a Crimson photo editor...
...Cleary continued to skate every Sunday morning at the Harvard rink, when he told the Boston Globe that despite his age he enjoyed being “always on the go.” It is in part this drive that contributed to the “huge impact in every aspect” that Fusco ascribes to him, and makes the words of USOC President LeRoy Walker about the 1996 “Golden Olympians” seem especially relevant to his case, that “they are not only great athletes, but great people...
...directs Learning by Redesign, an organization that explores of novel ideas in elementary and secondary education.In a September 1998 interview with NEA Today, the magazine of the National Education Association, Wilson explained his interest in K-12 education.“If your aim is to have an impact on science literacy... you need to rivet your attention on the 46 million students in our public schools, not on graduate students in our universities,” he said.—Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...most Marines, it is the second investigation (the first is a criminal inquiry being conducted by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service), the one being done by Army Major General Eldon Bargewell, that is so crucial to the Corps. In early March, the Marine leadership, recognizing the potential impact of Haditha, recommended that an officer from a different service conduct an investigation into how the incident was reported. The Marines also asked for a two-star general to do the inquiry to ensure that it be able to go to the highest Marine levels in Iraq. In the military, a junior...