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When Flores' station failed to make mission, his superiors ordered him to attend what the Army calls "low-production training" in Houston on Saturday, Aug. 2. "When you're getting home at 11 and getting up at 4, it's tough, but it's the dressing down that really got to him," says a recruiter who worked alongside Flores. "They had him crying like a kid in the office, telling him he was no good and that they were going to pull his stripes...
...been fearlessly devoted,” VES Professor Drew Beattie says. “Teaching isn’t a job for her. It’s a mission. It’s a devotion, not a job. Not all teachers are like that, not even at Harvard...
...most recent upset in what have been difficult times. The imminent change has not only troubled ardent supporters of the painting instructor, and alumni, but also unearthed longstanding, deeper anxieties concerning the direction in which the department is headed. Yet if VES is to continue to fulfill its mission to provide the best education possible to its students, then the troubling perception that the position of a more traditional, hands-on approach to art education has been rendered precarious by a move towards the theoretical must, at least, be brushed upon...
...hangs like a cloud of existential angst over the Atlantic Alliance's 60th birthday celebration this weekend. The festivities, which will span the Franco-German border, are suffused with the symbolism of a Cold War that brought NATO into being but whose end left the Alliance with no clear mission or identity. Hence the title of this anniversary summit: "NATO in 2020: What Lies Ahead...
...being mired in an identity crisis. "It's entirely unclear what NATO's reason for existence is after 1989 [the year the Berlin Wall came down]," says Tarak Barkawi, a senior lecturer in international security at Cambridge University's Center for International Studies. (See pictures of NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo...