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...notion of charting military progress by counting enemy dead was championed by then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who believed in analyzing all sorts of data to determine how the war was going. The emphasis on those numbers led to some commanders' emphasizing killing over winning and to inflated body counts - which often included counting civilian casualties as enemy dead. "The Army's selection of the body count as its primary metric may not only have contributed to losing the war, but in the end it proved so morally corrosive that it led to a crisis of soul-searching...
Among the passengers on US Airways Flight #1549 was Gerry McNamara, a partner at the executive recruiting firm Heidrick and Struggles. McNamara, a former U.S. Marine officer, wrote an inspirational account of his ordeal for the company's internal newsletter, and it has since been e-mailed around the country. Below, his account of that harrowing day in January...
Three young skiers joined the captain in the alpine scoring columns. Freshman Kevin McNamara improved eight places from his 51st starting position to finish 43rd in the Giant Slalom event. Sophomore Brad Alvarez joined Kinner and McNamara in the Giant Slalom scoring, improving 22 places on his starting position of 72nd to place 50th overall in the race...
...Slalom event, McNamara narrowly missed a top-30 finish, placing 33rd after starting in the 61st position. Between Kinner, McNamara and sophomore Alec Boardman, who finished in 44th position after starting the race in 75th, the men’s Slalom squad scored 48 points, Harvard’s highest total of the weekend in an individual event...
...challenging because it is so easy,” Kinner said. “On flat courses like Dartmouth, every little mistake slows you down a lot. This means that going just a little faster or slower will result in a very different position.” Freshman Kevin McNamara was the Crimson’s top finisher in the Slalom event, finishing 29th in the race, a 34-place improvement over his starting position. “He skied consistently, without any major mistakes,” Kinner said. “While I know he?...