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...instructor at France's war college and a colonel in the reserves. I agree with law professor Ruth Wedgwood that the detained al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are not combatants as defined by international law and should not be treated as POWs [VIEWPOINT, Feb. 4]. I am sure the U.S. Army respects these detainees and is treating them in compliance with the laws governing the conduct of war. I am also sure the Army knows they are fighters who have a fascination with death. Even so, a just trial and good treatment must preclude the death penalty. Their punishment must...
...claim an event for Asia, Koreans Ko Gi-Hyun, who took gold and at 15 became the youngest ever winner, and Choi Eun-Kyung, who smashed the Olympic record by six seconds in the semis. "Olympic athletes used to be role models," seethes Yosuke Yamaguchi, a former physical education instructor in Tokyo. "Now they're part athletes, part comedians...
...also struck it lucky with sponsorship. Swiss businessman Toni Hauswirth, who owns property in Fiji, took out an ad in a Fijian newspaper in 1999 offering an all-expenses paid trip to the Olympics (training base in Switzerland included) for the most promising ski candidate. Laurence Thoms, a ski instructor in New Zealand with a Fijian mother and passport, beat out the other applicants, none of whom had seen snow before...
...Restrictions on student choice have the tendency to extinguish our natural passions in curricular exploration,” Chopra said. “A flexible Core is a win for everyone: smaller classes for the instructor and more choice for the student...
...past, grades have been used a pedagogical tool—they reinforced comments on a paper or a test. Students are much more likely to take seriously a professor’s or TF’s comments if the grade sends an equivalent message. If an instructor says that a student’s work was mediocre, unoriginal or contained significant omissions but gives the student a B—which is supposed to indicate good work—the student receives conflicting signals and is less likely to take the critical comments seriously. But a C-minus...