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...Tragedy in the Military Thank you for "The Dark Side of Recruiting," detailing the suicides of U.S. Army recruiters [April 20]. The humiliating methods used against recruiters who do not make their quotas parallel the dehumanizing impulse of war, most famously seen with our torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. Is it the best training for men and women who choose a military career to feel, as one of your subjects says, "basically forced to do things outside of what would normally be considered to be moral or ethical"? Another probable cause of the suicides: maybe recruiters feel...
...Abrams summoned Leonard Nimoy out of a black hole to play an elder Mr. Spock, and Eric Bana, star of the lambasted Ang Lee version of The Hulk, for the bad-guy role of Nero. But Chris Pine (young Kirk) and Zachary Quinto (young Spock) are actors not previously seen on a movie marquee; they might not even be in FaceBook. The film's biggest on-screen name is probably Winona Ryder, hard to recognize as (gasp!) Spock's human...
...legal world, a profession where day-to-day business is typically conducted out of the spotlight, in closed meetings held high in lobbied skyscrapers; where procedural minutiae are the one and only way, and the will of the judge is to be revered and respected, such activities are seen as highly iconoclastic, and even destructive. On the blogosphere, the quirky moves are dynamic fodder, taking on their own classification—“Nessonalia” or “Nessianic influences,” they have been called. Even to the students who work for and admire...
...mysterious illness surfaced at least three days ago, with inquisitive questions regarding envelopes received in student mailboxes. The just smaller than letter size envelopes were sent via university mail, as seen through the label which also contained the student's name and house. These were not nice Avery labels either--the typed sheets of paper were taped onto the envelope. No return address included, of course...
...part, Sadr has remained consistent in saying nothing. He offered no statements during his appearance in Turkey and has not been seen or heard from since then. With reporting by Mazin Ezzat/Baghdad