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...blind date to the now-defunct Hotel Lafayette—then a swank destination for the college crowd on account of its dimly-lit bar. She would later learn that her soon-to-be-husband had been one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s “soldier scientists,” at work on the atomic bomb. The couple married...
...cards. To that end, he set out to establish himself as a French man of letters: he found work as a journalist for French language publications and authored five novels in his adopted tongue. “La Permission,” a novel of an African-American soldier stationed near Paris, became the basis of “Three-Day Pass...
Part of the purpose of the exhibition is to speed up a sluggish procurement system. The Pentagon has failed for months, for example, to get into Iraq adequate protection against improvised explosive devices and is losing an average of a soldier nearly every day to those homemade bombs. The show brings more than 550 vendors to one site and helps compress a laborious Defense Department process by offering commanders proven equipment that is already commercially available...
...shower. There was another puddle of blood, with more smeared on the wall. I realized that the blood on the wall was writing. The senior officer asked me to translate. "Sir, it reads: 'I committed suicide because of the brutality of my oppressors,'" I said. The young soldier cowering on the steps had been tasked with monitoring the detainee. When he heard me, he looked horrified. I could see he was blaming himself for the carnage, and I walked over to him. "This wasn't your fault," I said...
...transportation and food for troops. Many African countries have 70 to 80 percent of their populations living on less than a dollar a day; while they may be willing to send troops, they cannot afford the five dollars a day required to clothe, house, feed and arm a soldier, especially one on a mission with no profit for the country. Thus, nations have donated troops, but they are ill-equipped. Some have failed to reach Sudan because their countries cannot afford to fly them there...