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Pietrangelo doesn't buy the line from Obama aides - and the Pentagon - that they're too busy grappling with a faltering economy and two wars to handle the gay ban right away. "It's a complete lie that he has too much stuff on his plate - this is the guy who criticized Bush for not being able to multitask," Pietrangelo says. "We have an old saying in the military - the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero meters...
...allow gays and lesbians to serve openly. The President, they say, could instruct the Secretary of Defense, who has the sole power to carry out the law, to make investigations a rarity, so that "Don't ask, don't tell" simply does not function. Indeed, Obama could tell the Pentagon that, as a general matter, it is not in the best interest of the armed forces to expel a service member solely for saying he or she is gay or bisexual. (Watch TIME's video "Gay Marriage in the Heartland...
...laces his guides with short and vivid histories and a scholar's appreciation for Renaissance art yet knows the best place to start an early tapas crawl in Madrid if you have kids. His clear, hand-drawn maps are Pentagon-worthy; his hints about how to go directly to the best stuff at the Uffizi, avoid the crowds at Versailles and save money everywhere are guilt-free. He pushes his readers to picnic for lunch and save their money for dinner. He sketches out amusing walks through commercial quarters from Antibes to Venice that link the ancient world...
...enemy death - for a total of nearly 2,000 - over the past 14 months. That news has already renewed the debate over the wisdom of relying on such numbers. "This isn't going to do anything to convince the American public that we're winning," says Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon personnel chief during the Reagan Administration. "It should be stopped, because at best it gives a false impression of what's happening and at worst it can rally the other side...
...regular release of body counts - a Pentagon press release on Monday had the headline "Troops in Afghanistan Kill 17 Militants" - marks a reversal in U.S. military thinking. During Operation Anaconda, the first big battle following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan nearly eight years ago, General Tommy Franks slapped down reporters who demanded to know how many enemy fighters had been killed. "I won't talk to you about body count," he said flatly. That's because for decades, the very phrase body count had been deemed poison in the ranks due to its use - and misuse - during the Vietnam...