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NAOMI NOVIK A British naval captain boards a French warship (this being the Napoleonic era) and discovers a dragon's egg in the hold. This does not surprise him. In his reality, dragons are in common use by the military; popular breeds include Winchesters and Regal Coppers. But dragons bond at birth, and when the egg hatches at sea, our hero, Captain Laurence, must become the dragon's rider--which distresses him, since, as everyone knows, "no woman of sense and character would deliberately engage her affections on an aviator." Laurence's induction into the strange, insular world of 19th...
...prisoner didn't trust his lawyer at the start, refusing even to speak with her. She did what she could to win his confidence, donning a hijab, the head covering worn by observant Muslim women, when she visited him at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Eventually, he began to ask how his aging father in Saudi Arabia made contact with her, how he could be sure she was not another interrogator trying to extract more information from him. "He asked me the same questions over and over," says Gitanjali Gutierrez. "He desperately sought...
...behavior consistent with extreme psychological trauma (talking to non-existent people, reporting hearing voices, crouching in a cell covered with a sheet for hours)." The FBI reports formed part of a letter sent by a senior FBI official to the Pentagon complaining of abuse witnessed by agents at the naval base...
...mentioned a defense fund started by Oliver North's Naval Academy classmates. Your readers should be aware that there are Annapolis graduates who are not impressed with his performance and who would not contribute to such a fund. As long as we wear a uniform, we are responsible to the nation for our actions. There may be security reasons for not testifying in open session. There are no reasons for not testifying in closed session. Taking the Fifth Amendment to cover professional actions is against the traditions North learned at Annapolis...
Richard F. Brown U.S. Naval Academy Class...