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...Stain Cup, Charles River...
Much of the opposition to ROTC stems from feelings that association with the Pentagon puts a moral stain on the University. This view, based largely on the original impetus for ROTC's expulsion--its association with the United States' morally bankrupt adventure in Vietnam--presupposes that there is something ineradicable corrupt and oppressive about the American military. It overlooks the potentially salutary influence that liberal arts students may exert on the armed forces. Broadening America's officer corps to include graduates of schools like Harvard will make the military more representative of society as a whole, and will have...
...inflammatory official daily newspaper, last week's tirade was one for the books. "The dirty snowball of lies and slander now rolling over the pages of the Western press will sooner or later melt under the rays of the truth," Pravda declared. "Only dirt will remain, which will stain for a long time the political reputation of those who were helping to mold that snowball." The target of the unusual vituperation: widespread suspicions in the West that the KGB plotted or abetted or was at least aware of the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul...
...took months to bring the guardsmen to trial. And even then, most observers believed the case would eventually be dismissed, chalked up as another stain on the Salvadoran government's already soiled human rights record. But Monday, a judge in Zacatecoluca found that the soldiers had "participated in the crime" of aggravated assault. Unless the guardsmen successfully appeal the decision--an unlikely event--they will go to jail for their crimes...
...could see one of my team members, then none. Then a figure appeared in a clearing 15 yds. away, wearing a red armband, firing at a target I could not see. I shot, heard the figure say "Eccch, you got me," in a conversational tone and saw a yellow stain from my pellet on his shirt. Feeling quick and clever, I ran on in a crouch. In a stand of small trees, too skinny for good cover, a red player and I caught sight of each other and began to shoot. The pistols made phutt, phutt noises. I could...