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When he refused to deploy to Iraq in June, Army Lt. Ehren Watada said he was following his conscience and upholding his duty not to obey illegal orders. But that didn't impress military officials, who promptly charged him with violating Army rules and sent him on a path toward a likely court-martial...
...would be really cool, and possibly even productive from a sexual standpoint...to have a pool party late at night,” Royce recalls.Royce snuck in his girlfriend, along with two other couples, under the veil of the night, without being caught.Other graduates say that students tended to obey the rules.“It really wasn’t worth the hassle, but I’m sure people did [violate the restrictions],” Gates says.“I hated those parietals, but I always obeyed them because I didn’t think...
...reform is on life support, and Bush's expansive view seems all but irrelevant. Bush was repudiated on the Dubai ports deal, despite the merits of his argument. Lawmakers protective of their own constitutional prerogatives are not meekly letting the White House decide which laws it is inclined to obey...
...sergeant major barks. “No Fear Paul Revere!” the cadets chant back. Many of them are tall, broad-shouldered men. They tower over their sergeant major, who wryly describes her height as “five foot nothing.” And they obey her commands without hesitation. The sergeant major this semester is Harvard senior Rachel R. Sarvis ’06. She is used to challenging first impressions. “It’s not like I’m some huge guy walking in,” she says...
...McGonagle leads the cadet in the oath of enlistment. “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me...” They end with, “So help me God,” and the cadets cheer...