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Some interesting comments emerged in the aftermath of last weekend’s BMF/ABHW snafu. Both on e-mail lists and in passing, students claimed shock that something like this could happen here, at Harvard, among minds thought to be above such poor judgment...
...can’t blame thoughts like these for presenting themselves, and it’s not the peoples’ fault for thinking them. After all, it’s what the media has told us for a long time: That we should multiply our shock and increase our outrage at a college kid’s narrow-mindedness, despite the fact that it happens all the time, everywhere, every day. Where’s that coverage...
...Jordan's defense team has asked the Army to turn over records of mental evaluations of two unnamed prospective court-martial witnesses. One is thought to be Pappas. The other, according to Jordan's lawyer, has admitted to being medically treated for shell shock stemming from his service at Abu Ghraib. This week the judge ordered the Army to locate the mental evaluations, if they exist, and give them to the tribunal for review. It remains unclear who may have actually labeled Pappas "not combat fit", or if the records sought by the court will even address his psychological condition...
...proud to be an American citizen and manage to stay fairly well informed. My views on current global affairs may be largely apolitical and often bipartisan, but I felt surprise and shock to see that President George W. Bush was missing from your list of the 100 most influential people. All things considered, I think it was a serious mistake...
...Willard Mitt - who was called Billy until he was old enough to protest that he liked his middle name better - was the baby of the family, whose arrival six years after his three siblings' is remembered as a shock and a miracle. When Mitt was 7, George took over a failing car company called American Motors and introduced a radical design concept in the era of soaring tail fins and acres of chrome: something he called the "compact car," a sedan built on a smaller frame to be cheaper...