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...scars. The engineering department learned to make replicas of roadside bombs so the cadets could learn how to spot them. Classes in counterinsurgency and comparative religion and sub-Saharan Africa became as essential as rifles and boots. Twenty-three times since 9/11, the cadets have stood in the mess hall at silent attention for a fallen graduate. "What these cadets don't know," says an instructor just back from battle, "is that I'm secretly teaching Iraq every second of every...
...fight. The instinct made Lennox proud, but as more and more reports surfaced of students wanting to quit so they could be deployed right away, Lennox grew concerned. At dinner on Sept. 13, he stood looking out over the entire corps from the balcony high above the mess hall and delivered his message. "I preached tactical patience," he says. "I told them that they'd be needed. As officers...
...went man-down a couple of times and with that team you expect them to capitalize on that,” Samuelson said. “We had just a small let-down and it really meant the game. In a tight game you just can’t mess up like that...
...level of disapproval of Jane and John Harvard reached a peak, though, after the well-coordinated (and from what I hear, hilarious) disruption of the CIA recruitment meeting two weeks ago. Being offended because a group of idealistic students chose to mess with a government effort that they deemed profoundly amoral is ridiculous. Instead, we should marvel at how much power these students leveraged—whether or not we agree with their politics. (For the record, I agree.) They actually stood up and stopped a mechanism of the powerful system they hated, just by being funny. As one friend...
Prime Minister Paul Martin may face an early election after allegations of Liberal Party money laundering. He apologized on national TV last week for an "unjustifiable mess...