Word: obeying
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...Eugene, Oregon, when he came home to find a draft notice waiting for him. "I went down to the draft board and asked them if this was really serious," he recalls, "or if it was like an invitation." But it was an order, the first of many Mellinger would obey. He started his military career as a clerk in what was then called West Germany, and was looking forward hanging up his uniform after two years of service. "I was dead-set on getting out," he says. "We had a lot of racial problems, drug problems, leadership problems...
Kung'u and Otieno believe the best way to take down the politicians' armies is to take away the cannon fodder. For them, it's a simple calculus: Get kids to reject a culture in which they must obey the commands of their elders. Then, get kids to start working so that the next time politicians come offering $15 for them to go kill someone from the wrong tribe, they stop and think about how much they have to lose. "We are trying to create that rebel mind, where you think on your own," says Kung'u. "If the young...
Replicating Milgram: Would People Still Obey Today? Jerry M. Burger, PhD. American Psychological Association...
...Felicity could only obey...
...following Obama's election two weeks ago. "I am hopeful that conditions will continue to improve, so we can continue" to withdraw U.S. troops, Mullen said. But if ordered to pull out despite poor conditions - a possibility many Pentagon officials fear in an Obama Administration - Mullen said he would obey such a command. Mullen added that it's "theoretically possible" that a new agreement allowing U.S. troops in Iraq post-2011 might be struck if conditions deteriorate...