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Reports of sexual assault in the military increased 11% last year, according to a Department of Defense study released on March 16. While the study did not conclusively explain the increase, the Pentagon called the rise in reports "encouraging" and suggested that a 2005 sexual-assault-policy overhaul might be part of the reason more victims have come forward. The study also highlighted a 16% increase in sexual assaults occurring in combat areas. The typical case involved an 18-to-25-year-old enlisted male and a female victim (either military or civilian). The report estimates that only...
...What They're Broadcasting in Georgia: Georgian residents received a shock on March 13 when a national television station broadcast a phony news report claiming that Russia had invaded the country and killed President Mikheil Saakashvili. Except for a brief initial disclaimer, nothing in the broadcast indicated it was a spoof. The panic was exacerbated by memories of an actual invasion by Russian troops in late...
...Phelps has accepted his final assignment. Graves, best known as the implacable leader of TV's Mission: Impossible team from 1967 to '73, died March 14 at 83. Thus ended a 60-year career in which his flinty features, suitable for carving on Mount Rushmore, and his sonorous baritone made him one of the small screen's leading authority figures--an eminence he occasionally subverted in irreverent comedies like Airplane! and Men in Black...
ABBAS SABAH, an Iraqi election official, on the meticulous counting of ballots from the March 7 parliamentary elections...
...March 15, President Obama unveiled his plan for reforming the nation's education system. The bulk of the plan, which looks to overhaul George W. Bush's frequently criticized No Child Left Behind law, advances the bold ideas with which this Administration has already become closely associated. The President wants to link billions of federal dollars to initiatives like ending the achievement gap between white and nonwhite students, evaluating teachers and awarding performance bonuses to principals and teachers who've earned them. On the basis of what we know has worked in New York City with our 1.1 million schoolkids...