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March 13, 2006: A Naval Criminal Investigative Service team arrives in Haditha to open an investigation. Marines begin briefing members of Congress about the probe...
...charged with murder is small. But the source speculates that the total number who may be charged with crimes ranging from murder to aiding in the attack or trying to cover it up could be as high as 10, according to Marines who have talked to officials at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which is conducting the inquiry into the killings. Partial findings from the other investigation, into how the Marines' chain of command dealt with the Haditha killings, conducted by Army Major General Eldon Bargewell, were delivered to Pentagon officials last week. Marine Corps officials expect Bargewell...
...promising naval officer, Holman lost his sight at age 25 after a mysterious illness. That was, to say the least, a calamity. Braille had not been invented yet. The blind were institutionalized and infantilized, expected to lead celibate lives mooching or begging or doing menial work. None of which appealed to our hero. Seeking a cure (not only for his blindness but also for agonizing rheumatism), he set off alone for southern France...
...rich, satisfying digression. Holman met Franois Huber, a pioneering blind entomologist who, like Holman, had managed to carve out a career despite his disability. He studied bees using a special hinged hive that opened and shut like a book. Holman sailed with William Owen, the brilliant, illegitimate, eccentric naval captain who surveyed the coast of Africa...
...nicer dorms at the time and if those without could live in the character rich dorms.” Because neither one of his parents had gone to college, Leder says he did not face any pressure to choose a particular school. While he considered enrolling in the Naval Academy, Leder says it wasn’t until he realized he wanted to pursue a career in medicine that he decided on Harvard. The M.D.-to-be was not without his share of the normal worries that accompany any first-year at Harvard.“I feared going...