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Despite rules forbidding any romantic relationships between recruiters and recruits, the Army has until now failed to enforce that ban with the intensity it has shown in denouncing the abuse at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Last week a military jury there began deliberating whether to convict Sergeant Delmar Simpson of raping six female trainees under his command 19 times. One issue in his case is whether he used the sheer power of his position as a drill sergeant to intimidate women into submitting to him sexually. But recruiting stations present their own challenges to an Army trying to crack...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND: Former Drill Sergeant Delmar Simpson stood straight at attention as a military juror quickly read the verdict against him: Guilty on 43 of 54 charges, including raping six trainees a total of 18 times. Although 11 other men face charges in the Aberdeen investigation, Simpson's was the most egregious case in the military's worst sex scandal since 1991's Tailhook. Jurors deliberated for five days to return a verdict which ultimately came down to a question of abusing authority: Did Simpson use the sheer power that a drill instructor wields over trainees to intimidate them...
...them. He nods and grins at the press and the prosecutors. McVeigh is accused of killing 168 people, 19 of them children; he may face the death penalty. But here he is, smiling and flirting, behaving like a guest on the Tonight Show. It's Timothy McVeigh as O.J. Simpson...
...hair of Alan Simpson, the former Wyoming senator, and of Harvard officials like the Provost Al Carnesale," says Papalimberis. "I knew that he was leaving Harvard for UCLA before anyone else...
...Nation and Notebook sections of the magazine, he now handles most of our late-breaking news stories and serves as religion editor as well. In the past three months Chua-Eoan has written the cover story on the murder of Ennis Cosby, supervised our inside look at the Simpson civil trial, edited the March 24 cover story, "Does Heaven Exist?," and put together a 16-page special report on the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult members. Along the way, somehow, he has also managed to pull together TIME's 25 Most Influential Americans. "TIME...