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...euro's prelaunch period, a few skeptics predicted that the mismatch between a single European currency and differing national economic conditions would eventually lead to tension and an ugly breakup. The euro, heretofore one of the great political and economic successes of the past decade, is now undergoing a stress test of that hypothesis...
...colonel personally counseling a private is, it is worth noting, an exceedingly unusual event. During their talk, Green wanted to know, "Why can't we just shoot them all?" A few days before that, Green had met with Lieut. Colonel Karen Marrs, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, for a combat-stress counseling session. During that meeting, Green declared several times that he was obsessed with killing Iraqis. (One entry that Marrs scribbled on Green's intake evaluation sheet read, "Interests: None other than killing Iraqis.") After these and numerous other similar encounters with senior leaders, Green was almost immediately sent back...
...Green's crimes, just a routine Army investigation known as an AR 15-6, which was completed by a single lieutenant colonel in five days. Nor, for that matter, was anything other than a 15-6 ordered after Sergeant John Russell killed five fellow soldiers at a combat-stress center on an Army base in Baghdad in May 2009. Inevitably, this raises questions of whether a double standard is at play. Is the Army serious about accountability only when a soldier murders other soldiers on U.S. soil and the shooter is an Islamist? There were no disciplinary repercussions for those...
Chan says that the words “membership-driven” stress a drive for the organization to undertake its efforts from the bottom up rather than the top down...
Though her arm strength is always in high demand by both of her coaches, even for someone as gifted as Price, it is impossible for her to be in two places at once. The eight-time letterwinner remembers the stress of getting out of water polo practice and immediately heading to soccer...