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...platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture. As his fame increased, Ellis began sharing his war stories with journalists and colleagues. The problem is that Ellis never served in Vietnam, as the Boston Globe disclosed last week. He rode out the war doing graduate work at Yale and teaching history at West Point...
...platoon leader and paratrooper in Vietnam to help animate his popular course Vietnam War and American Culture. As his fame increased, Ellis began sharing his war stories with journalists and colleagues. The problem is that Ellis never served in Vietnam, as the Boston Globe disclosed last week. He rode out the war doing graduate work at Yale and teaching history at West Point...
...that belies two facts. One, the Bush Administration has actually rewarded some of those who doggedly pursued alleged wrongdoing by the Clinton crew with prominent administration jobs. And two, Burton himself is still investigating Clinton-connected events, six months after the man himself rode out of town...
...subway-rush-hour crush. The only people allowed to join the party were Hong Kong celebrities arriving in limos and whisked into another entrance. Then YIR's escort spotted a familiar face, that of director Peter Chan, inside one of the Mercedeses. "Hop in," Chan said. We rode about four meters to the entrance, got out and were greeted like Asian royalty (with two American courtiers). The moral: it's not who you know, it's who is willing to say he knows...
...defection from the GOP, Vermont Senator James Jeffords could be forgiven for feeling a little like chaos theory's oft-cited chrysalis. After all, relations between the U.S. and its allies - never minds its strategic competitors - had sunk to their lowest point in recent memory as the Bush administration rode roughshod over the concerns of its allies on everything from missile defense and China policy to climate change. Now, with the switch of a single party affiliation, U.S. foreign policy is a whole new ballgame...