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...Pentagon didn't plan for the contractors going so heavily into the war theater, says Lawrence Korb, Department of Defense manpower chief under President Ronald Reagan. "When they went into Iraq, the assumption was they had won," he says. "They did know there was going to be continuing fighting. This thing grew far beyond where anybody thought it would...
MASTER SERGEANT RONALD JENKINS, protesting the fact that he was ordered to go to Iraq even though he has a spinal problem that his doctors say would be exacerbated by heavy Army gear...
...appreciated Ronald K. Kamdem’s comment “Not So Lucky” (Mar. 1). However, saying “The Higher Power of Lucky” was banned “in many school libraries across the country” misleadingly suggests that efforts to ban the book have been common. In fact, librarians choosing not to stock the book (many of whom are making that decision under strong pressure from their communities) are very decidedly in the minority. Far more significant is the fact that the book did, as Kamdem notes, win the Newbery Medal...
...politics in 1976 when one of their own ran for President - that would be Jimmy Carter - were more than ready to abandon him when he turned out to be, of all things, a true believing Democrat, in favor of a divorced Hollywood actor who was elevated to political sainthood. Ronald Reagan's divorce and estrangement from children were not disqualifying - adding yet another motive for candidates of both parties to invoke him as their icon...
...Ronald K. Kamdem ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Grays Hall...