Word: misbehaviors
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...service earlier in Utzig's tenure for inappropriately touching a female student. This may have led Utzig and others to believe the problems were being properly handled, but it could also have masked a more serious breakdown in the chain of command that allowed some officers to feel their misbehavior would be tolerated. "It is hard to believe that other drill instructors at Aberdeen were completely blind as to what was happening," says Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. A female officer with a decade of service, who says she has experienced sexual harassment in the Army, agrees...
...teachers were coping with kids' misbehavior long before there was zero drug tolerance or gender sensitivity. What has changed is the parents. The welter of written regulations that have supplanted the rule of common sense in America's schools did not arise in a vacuum but in an atmosphere where parents think they know best--and certainly know how to call a lawyer. In response, skittish school boards have pursued rule codification as a way to narrow discretion and defend lawsuits. Yet trying to write detailed regulations about what is permissible between boys and girls during their most chaotic years...
China, says Dole, should "play by the rules" and not "threaten its neighbors." We should "prioritize our interests and communicate our priorities to the Chinese leadership." The U.S. should never ignore Chinese misbehavior, says Dole, but like Clinton, he views the idea of denying Beijing most-favored-nation trading status as counterproductive. At bottom, Dole's China policy is Clinton's: stay calm, hope for the best and pray that China's succession struggle goes well...
...year by one estimate) that is no longer so welcome in conservative and often xenophobic Gulf states. Meanwhile, Saddam remains uncowed and free to mount new disruptions, to defy the U.S. wherever he can. While Washington has curbed his appetite for external adventures, it has failed to control his misbehavior at home. He has buffed up his tough-guy image and maintains an unabated fever for revenge. His hold on power seems as durable as ever...
...Nazi storm-trooper lightning bolts tattooed on his neck. In a 1990 evaluation his superior officer wrote, "Loyalty is questionable, as he willingly admits to belonging to a radical group called 'skinheads.'" Leyden then received an "other than honorable" discharge, for what the military dubbed "alcohol-related" misbehavior...