Word: soldiers
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...other lesson of Aberdeen is that the U.S. military may well be, to use the classic military terminology, fubar, or screwed up beyond all recognition. Some forms of abuse--like sexual harassment--have been defined by the law as criminal. But the soldier who turns on his comrades with savage intent commits a far graver category of crime. Whether he shoots them in the back or assaults their bodies with his own, he's confusing his fellow soldiers with the foe--and the word for this is treason. When a woman can't trust her drill sergeant, neither...
...private alleged she was abused by Captain Derrick Robertson, Simpson's commander in the 143rd's Alpha Company. Robertson, who has been charged with rape and assault, has admitted to a relationship with a recruit, though he denies raping her. And Beach is charged with adultery, threatening a female soldier and fraternization. All three men are married. If court-martialed and convicted, Simpson and Robertson could spend the rest of their life in prison...
Herzog, a British soldier during World War II, was one of the first to witness the atrocities of the Holocaust in their liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp...
...They soldier on, making their sweet piercing music, enjoying decent careers and, every couple of years, releasing a CD that enriches the pop-music vocabulary. Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin are close to the best there is in today's bounty of singer-songwriters. But hovering above them, like a gargantuan nightmare kid sister, is the brutal fact of Alanis Morissette, whose primal whining has moved 15 million copies of her first album. It must be a perplexity for Carpenter, whose songs have cannier pop hooks, and for Colvin, whose angst-filled anthems predated and surpassed Morissette's--though...
...moderate Gilman voted with President Clinton 71% of the time and was the only House Republican to vote against the balanced-budget amendment. He still sides with the G.O.P. on cutting government regulation and outdated federal programs, but Gilman has sometimes found it hard being a moderate soldier in the midst of the Republican revolution...