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...addition to Crockett and Carter, Walsh will also start freshman Josh San Salvador at designated hitter. Last year's DH-slot was a lefty-righty platoon between Brett Vankoski '98 and senior utility man Todd Harris...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Looks to Add Third Notch to Ivy Belt | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...addition to Crockett and Carter, Walsh will also start freshman Josh San Salvador at designated hitter. Last year's DH-slot was a lefty-righty platoon between Brett Vankoski '98 and senior utility man Todd Harris...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Swings for Third Straight Ivy League Title | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...with Capano's mistress. Capano in turn seemed to have no remorse over his admission of numerous liaisons throughout his marriage, and he left behind a trail of graphic love letters as evidence. "Dear Slutty Little Girl" began a letter to one of what came to seem like a platoon of girlfriends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of the Missing Corpse | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

Cohen declared the story "irresponsible" because it leveled such grave charges against the U.S. and its troops without the "overpowering evidence" such explosive allegations require. The Pentagon probe found that Robert Van Buskirk, a Tailwind platoon leader and a prime source for the original story, never mentioned sarin or defectors in an after-action briefing he gave. Retired Captain Michael Rose, the Tailwind medic, told Pentagon investigators that he had no doubt the fumes he inhaled were tear gas, just like the whiffs he got in basic training. "It's like skunk," he said. "Once you smell it, you never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolutely No Evidence | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...record source was the platoon's second-in-command, former Lieut. Robert Van Buskirk. He said he had seen two American defectors, vividly described killing one of them and seemed to confirm that nerve gas was used. His assertion about defectors, however, was based on a "recovered memory" that occurred while being interviewed by CNN. In his own book on Tailwind, he had not made this charge. Both in his early interviews with CNN and in statements he made after the story ran, he was ambiguous about whether the "Caucasians" he recalled were American defectors or Russian advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tailwind: An Apology | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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