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...hope of exacting justice for past violations of the social compact. Instead, he asked the country to look forward, to an era of new regulations that will prevent a repeat of these failures. And he repeated again the outrage that most Americans now feel, with a little levity to lighten the mood. "I'm choked up with anger," he said, to cover for his coughs. It was a fleeting laugh for a nation steaming with fury...
Meanwhile, the mountainous terrain and high altitudes of Afghanistan have led the Army to increasingly emphasize rapid delivery of anything that can lighten a soldier's load. As a result, the U.S. Army Infantry Center at Fort Benning, Ga., is experimenting with a 4,000-lb, six-wheeled semiautonomous, supply-carrying robot vehicle called the Squad Mission Support System (SMSS), which will likely head to the mountains of Afghanistan for testing sometime next year...
...either sensitivity or representational equality,” McCarthy writes in an email. “But I am hopeful that the producers will think carefully about how to represent diversity so that this year’s Eleganza is a celebration rather than a caricature.”LIGHTEN UP, IT’S JUST FASHIONIn a show that straddles the line between pure entertainment and artistic expression, Eleganza organizers struggle to strike a balance between pleasing the crowd and appeasing the critics. “Eleganza walks a fine line between being a show that is very appealing...
...interspersed with officers yelling conflicting information about which section of the crowd would be admitted first. After lurching forward in the shoulder-to-shoulder crowd, my friends and I took turns resting by sitting down on the permafrost in a bizarre forest of legs as the sky began to lighten. After a one second frisking, Transportation Security Administration officials eventually let us through. I could easily have carried a weapon onto the Mall. Luckily, we managed to snag the best front -row spots in our section. Things were looking up as the sun rose on the first day of Obama?...
...move that will lighten the constraints of earlier financial cutbacks, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith will allow six additional searches for new faculty to go forward in the coming months, he said yesterday...