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...huge challenge is not to slide into the miasma of Afghanistan's impossible politics. Diplomats say an ambush of U.S. special forces earlier this month in the province of Khost, in which Green Beret Sergeant Nathan Chapman was killed, may have been in reprisal for the U.S.'s backing an unpopular local warlord there, Pacha Khan Zadran. Zadran has enemies within his own tribe, including one who claims to be Khost's new governor and whose 500 fighters captured part of Khost last week. Twice now, Zadran's foes say, he has called in U.S. air strikes on his enemies...
...know that Staff Sergeant Scott Germosen's widow Jennifer had bought him a new wedding band, to surprise him when he came home. That Captain Daniel McCollum was a star wrestler in high school, voted "best looking" in his class. That Sergeant Jeannette Winters was the first servicewoman to die in this war. That Lance Corporal Bryan Bertrand had just re-enlisted for another tour because he didn't want to sit on the sidelines at a time like this. Last week Green Beret Nathan Ross Chapman was buried by his family: we met his widow Renae on the Today...
...Boston police union is claiming that the Jan. 9 indictment of a police sergeant for allegedly breaking the jaw of Garett D. Trombly ’03 became a federal case only because the victim is a “white, affluent Harvard student...
...federation seriously questions why a wealthy, affluent Harvard student who alleges improper use of force by a Boston police sergeant is able to obtain a federal civil rights indictment when, in almost every other instance, particularly when such allegations involve people of color or those not privileged, such matters are turned over to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution,” union president Joseph G. Gillespie said in the statement...
...reviewing the allegations against Byrne, the press release referred to Trombly as “a white, affluent Harvard student who was publicly drinking and who had spat on Sergeant Byrne...