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...President Faust should absolutely use the occasion to express this community’s moral outrage at DADT. It would be offensive to our values for Harvard’s ROTC graduates not to begin their service in the shadow of the Pentagon??s repugnant discrimination. (These values are, incidentally, not just President Faust’s—there is no shortage of Harvard ROTC students who oppose DADT, but who are forced to keep their silence because of the military’s restrictions on their free speech...
...development of in vitro meat—meat that is grown from stem cells in a laboratory. Of course, offering prize money to entice entrepreneurs is not a novel idea. The Ansari X prize, eventually awarded to Space Ship One, provided $10 million to develop private space flight. The Pentagon??s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded prizes to develop autonomous ground vehicles. Even Google has offered a $30 million Lunar X prize for the first privately funded group to send a robot to the moon. However, PETA’s prize is unconventional in that...
...clear that those highest in the level of command sanctioned specific methods of prisoner abuse. While the meetings referenced in the ABC report revolved around interrogation at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, according to the Vanity Fair piece, “[An] August 2006 report of the Pentagon??s inspector general concluded unequivocally that techniques from Guantánamo had indeed found their way to Iraq,” specifically to the Abu Ghraib prison. In fact, a month prior to the first abuses by Abu Ghraib’s “bad apples...
...Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), an organization seeking the repeal of the Pentagon??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, was honored with the second annual Gay and Lesbian Legal Advocacy Leadership Award on Saturday...
...Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) reintroduced legislation yesterday that would lift the Pentagon??s “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on openly gay and bisexual military personnel. “Wasting taxpayer dollars by discharging competent service members under ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ doesn’t make sense,” Meehan, chairman of the House Armed Services Sub-Committee on Oversight and Investigations, said at a Washington, D. C., press conference yesterday...