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Harvard and a host of other universities have long insisted that only employers who pledge not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation can gain access to the schools’ official recruiting resources. But the Pentagon??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy requires the discharge of openly gay servicemembers, and military recruiters have refused to sign the University’s nondiscrimination pledge...
Under both the proposed House and Senate bills, federal financial aid to individual students would not be affected if schools limit ROTC or military recruitment on campus. The original Solomon Amendment would have cut off aid to students whose schools flout the Pentagon??s requests...
Greer called the student aid exemption “a good piece of a bad law.” She said that independent law schools that do not receive federal research money might be more likely to challenge the Pentagon??s policy once the exemption becomes...
...unfortunate matter of the flag-draped coffins is playing out the same way. The Pentagon??s policy on not allowing images of coffins returning from war is understandable, if inexcusable. The policy could have been defended on grounds of morale or taste, for example. But when a number of tasteful, moving images of caskets returning from Iraq were released from the press, the White House decided to defend an ill-conceived policy rather than let it pass, and once again crossed the line from the mistaken to the absurd. A spokesperson for our president condemned the release...
...decision before Colin Powell.) But the quote from Rumsfeld’s taped, transcribed interview with Woodward, in which he described telling Bandar that he could “take that to the bank this is going to happen,” has mysteriously been deleted from the Pentagon??s version of the transcript. Also deleted by the Pentagon (but, luckily, preserved in Woodward’s transcript, according to the Washington Post) is the following incredible statement from Rumsfeld: “We’re going to have to clean some of this...