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...were dropped--Bacos testified that he tried to intervene, then watched as two Marines fired 10 rounds into Awad's head after abducting him from his home in the Iraqi town of Hamdania. One of seven Marines charged in the crime, Bacos was first to go to a court-martial...
...career fair, rather than focus on the military’s discriminatory policies. Such activists conflate a desire to serve our nation with support for the Bush administration and its military aims; it’s clear, after all, that a vote for Bush supports its martial policies far more than an individual’s decision to join the military does. Undergraduates should rally to end DADT, they should question poor executive leadership, and they should protest military misconduct. But we recognize the military’s need to recruit its future leaders on university campuses like ours, even...
...lines from “Scarface” verbatim. The Wu-Tang Clan, while arguably the most cinematic rap crew ever to rock a mic, drew most of their influence not from Hollywood, but from Hong Kong. The group grew up on cheap kung-fu double features, bringing a martial lyrical ethic (and a bevy of dialogue samples) back to their headquarters in the legendary temple of “Shaolin” (Staten Island). As the film world became such a source of inspiration for hip-hop masters, it was only a matter of time before rappers ended...
...being called. While smiling Thais handed flowers to soldiers, their Asian neighbors had more somber anniversaries to consider. Eighteen years to the day before the Thai coup, Burmese soldiers shot dead hundreds of prodemocracy protesters in Rangoon; 16 years before that, late dictator Ferdinand Marcos put the Philippines under martial law; and another seven years earlier, a general called Suharto seized power in Indonesia. Burmese and Filipinos, in particular, know what it's like to have tanks on their streets. Why, then, do so many of them support the Thai military's overthrow of Thaksin Shinawatra? The answer says...
...already taken place in their country. Earlier this year Arroyo declared a brief state of emergency after supposedly foiling the latest in a series of plots to overthrow her. But a pro-Arroyo senator interviewed by TIME suggests the President is more likely to "do a Marcos" and declare martial law. "That's the only way for her to stay in power," he says...