Word: soldiers
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...Sept. 22 letter, Rustin Silverstein '99 and David Honig '99 criticize the printing of a Reuters photograph of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy being beaten by an Israeli soldier, saying that this coverage was "surprising and sad." Surprising, perhaps, since the U.S. media is generally so skewed towards the Zionist perspective, but not sad, for by no means is every critical exposure of Israeli biased or wrong. This photograph represented a move towards more balanced coverage, while their letter was simply a return to the revisionist writing about Israel and Palestinians that is normalized in mainstream U.S. discourse...
Edward Conlon, writing in the September 29 issue of The New Yorker, grants the Louima affair a proper inspection. Conlon compares the experience of the police officer to that of the soldier. He contends that just as the extraordinary demands of warfare can erode the character of good men, resulting in phenomenon like military atrocities, cops who work in increasingly war-like urban environments can find themselves similarly destroyed by their difficult task. Conlon writes, "Whether engaged in combat on the Trojan plain or in the jungles of Vietnam or on the streets of Brooklyn, those who traffic in violence...
...looking for a warm person who enjoys being with children and can get along with other adults too," says Melissa Chieppo, assistant director of Soldier's Field Park Children's Center at the Harvard Business School...
WASHINGTON: There was good and bad news for Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney. His investigator, Col. Robert Jarvis, recommended that the top enlisted soldier in the service be court-martialed over allegations of indecent assault, adultery and obstruction of justice ? all as expected. But at least McKinney will escape an extra charge of rape, which Jarvis threw...
Israel's retreat around 4 a.m. without the missing commando was an agonizing one: dead and wounded are always brought home, and the decision to leave someone went all the way up to the Defense Minister and the military Chief of Staff. The Israelis concluded that the soldier, who had been carrying explosives, must have been blown to bits. Later someone from Hizballah found parts of his body and offered to trade them for Arab prisoners held by Israel...