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Bailyn uses the Register as a pair of binoculars to focus on the origins and destinations of specific people--like James Metcalf Jr., a 27-year-old Methodist farmer who left his native Hawnby, Scotland in 1772 to settle in a remote outpost of Nova Scotia...
...Metcalf, who ventured into the new world without his fiancee, wrote an enthusiastic letter back to her four months after his arrival. He had already purchased land, found the other inhabitants pleasing, and complained only of, "a little flye caled a misketo that...bites like a midge," but even those could be kept out of the house with smoke pots, he guaranteed. Ending his plea with, "May ye Lord bles you, and conduct you safe hither," his story becomes just one of Bailyn's many revealing glimpses into...
...center, which contains laboratories, classrooms, lecture halls, advanced computers and a library, is being named in honor of Dr. Arthur G.B. Metcalf, a local industrialist and chairman of the university's board of directors...
...university said in a statement that the Metcalf Center represents the kind of commitment to strengthen scientific and technical education at the college level called for by a recent National Science Foundation report...
...trophy hunter, however, Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III, the U.S. Force Commander of the invasion, was merely "cautioned" after trying to smuggle in 24 AK-47 automatic rifles and 24 empty ammunition magazines. Metcalf has since been promoted to Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare. Why the difference in punishments? Explained Pentagon Spokesman Major Richard Ziegler: "All service members fall under the jurisdiction of a uniform code of military justice. The approach to cases may be different." Later in the week, in response to criticism, the Pentagon announced plans to review the sentences meted out to the seven...