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...heads lopped off at the Pentagon since Gates took over in 2006 it's almost as if he has launched a second French Revolution. First to go in early 2007 were a handful of senior Army brass following the revelations of poor conditions for wounded troops at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the Army's flagship hospital. Then, in 2008, he canned the Air Force's top two leaders - one civilian and one military - over their sloppy handling of nuclear missiles and other atomic gear. (See a TIME photo-essay on Robert Gates' public career...
...most success. Olivia Weeks won the triple jump event, with a 12.10-meter leap. Fellow first-year Mary Hirst took the title in the high jump, with a 1.65-meter bound, while her teammate, junior Dina Emde, finished second. To top it off, freshman Ashtynn Baltimore and sophomore Christine Reed also finished one-two in the 60-meter hurdles, with respective times of 8.88 and 8.95 seconds. It was an improvement for both, as Baltimore finished second and Reed seventh in the same event last weekend...
Junior J. Reed Endresen was among four other Crimson players to win 3-1, after he bested his opponent Trevor McGuinness, 7-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-7, in what many considered the most entertaining match...
Indeed, a number of former and current Wall Streeters have come out in favor of limiting proprietary trading by banks. At the Senate hearing on Thursday, former chairman of Citigroup John Reed said he supported a Volcker-rule-like separation of financial firms. "The industry should be compartmentalized so as to limit the propagation of failures and also to preserve cultural boundaries," Reed told Senators...
...late 2008, with the Iraq war and Bush presidency winding down, Gates made plans to leave the Pentagon. Just before the presidential election, Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed contacted Gates. Would he be interested in staying on? Would he meet with Obama about it? Gates prepared some questions. He wanted Obama to know where he was coming from. Obama read them over and told Reed, "They're right on target. I'm impressed, and it'd be useful to have a conversation with...