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Last Tuesday, the U.S. Army chief of staff announced that all troops will soon don black berets, replacing the current green hat which folds flat and is often termed an "envelope" cap. The apparel overhaul comes in response to declining recruit numbers and withering morale within the Army. Not only is this change ineffective and impractical, but also insane. They've looked for a solution and come up with berets. I'm still hoping that they haven't realized what berets actually look like...
...terrorist organization whose former leader was executed last year for the kidnapping of 16 Western tourists in 1998. But the more likely suspects, experts say, are international troublemakers operating in Yemen. Bin Laden, who attempted to blow up an Aden hotel housing U.S. service members in 1992, has helped recruit and support several fanatically anti-American terrorist cells, including the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Army of Yemen, which is headed by Bin Laden's brother...
...have dipped only slightly since a ban on affirmative action took effect in 1998, they have plummeted at the most selective campuses. At Berkeley, for example, the class entering this fall included 608 Chicano students, vs. 1,013 in 1997. In response, the elite schools have moved aggressively to recruit at minority high schools--and even to improve the performance of students who are graduating from them. This year the U.C. system will spend $250 million on outreach, from installing tutors at low-income schools to inviting high school teachers to summer calculus seminars. --By Amanda Ripley. Reported by Flora...
...effort to recruit more student theatergoers, Never Swim Alone presents to Harvard a quick, hour-long and free performance with racy humor embedded in a fast-paced verbal joust. Two men, Frank and Bill, argue about everything from the size of their homes to the quality of their lives to the size of their...you get the idea. Beneath the humor lie subtle references to repressed memories and undertones of violence. In this verbal boxing match, the referee becomes a woman killed in a drowning accident while racing with the men, who as young boys were desperately trying to impress...
...then disaster struck. In 1995, the NCAA found Miami guilty of recruiting violations and suspended 31 of the school's athletic scholarships. Unlike Ivy League football, large Div. I-A programs live or die by their ability to recruit with scholarships--and Miami effectively died...