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...complex theater that exists, the human mind, and from there we watch protagonist Alfred F. Day struggle with the only two things perhaps equally complex, and unstintingly envisioned as such by Kennedy: war and love. Five years may have passed since World War II, but the eponymous Day, former Sergeant and gunner in Her Majesty’s Royal Air Force, relives the war day in and day out. Understanding he can never move forward until he buries the corpses littered throughout his memories, Day returns to a POW camp in Germany with the avowed intent to work...
...Baluchi Valley, 16 km north of Tarin Kowt. They dropped leaflets and broadcast messages telling villagers how to protect themselves during the operation, which involved Australian, Dutch, Afghan and British forces. Rietdijk says Spin Ghar uncovered many weapons caches without a single civilian casualty. But Australian SAS sergeant Matthew Locke was shot dead on a reconnaissance mission, and Dutch soldier Ronald Groen was killed by a mine. Rietdijk concedes that giving notice of the operation might have put troops at risk, but says "the advantage of avoiding casualties among civilians was more important." An Australian Defence spokesman declined to comment...
...This is who I am. This is my life.' SERGEANT DARREN MANZELLA, U.S. Army medic and a decorated veteran of Iraq, discussing his homosexuality in a Jan. 8 press conference. Manzella has been openly gay since August 2006, despite the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy; its critics have argued that his case proves the policy is arbitrarily enforced...
...letter of recommendation and recently agreed to act as his academic adviser. He also confessed to fabricating the assault on himself. He inflicted his own wounds, pummeling himself on the face, scraping his head against a brick wall and breaking a glass bottle over his head. Princeton Township Detective Sergeant Ernie Silagyi, who is investigating the case, cites "underlying personal reasons." But Nava's story also points to similar incidents - mostly attached to heated political debates or controversies - at other campuses...
...complaint says, one of the defendants began to suspect Omar. Serdar Tatar, a legal resident from Turkey who worked at a 7-Eleven store and knew the Dukas and Shnewer from high school, asked Omar outright if he was a "fed." Three days later, Tatar contacted a Philadelphia police sergeant to report that someone was pressuring him to acquire maps of Fort Dix - and that he was afraid it might be terrorism-related. (Tatar's father owned a pizzeria and had a map of the base and clearance to deliver there.) The sergeant called...