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Because station commanders and their bosses are rated on how well their subordinates recruit, there is a strong incentive to cut corners to bring in enlistees. If recruiters can't make mission legitimately, their superiors will tell them to push the envelope. "You'll be told to call Johnny or Susan and tell them to lie and say they've never had asthma like they told you, that they don't have a juvenile criminal history," Kagawa says. "That recruiter is going to bend the rules and get the lies told and process the fraudulent paperwork." And if the recruiter...
Today's active-duty Army recruiting force is 7,600-strong. Soldiers attend school at Fort Jackson, S.C., for seven weeks before being sent to one of the 38 recruiting battalions across the nation. There they spend their days calling lists of high school seniors and other prospects and visiting schools and malls. At night, they visit the homes of potential recruits to sell them on one of the Army's 150 different jobs and seal the deal with hefty enlistment bonuses: up to $40,000 in cash and as much as $65,000 for college. The manual issued...
...problem, as anyone with a sweet tooth, an alcoholic relative or a maxed-out Visa card knows, is that old habits die hard. Temptation is strong. We are weak. We've got plenty of gurus, talk-show hosts and celebrity spokespeople badgering us to save energy, lose weight and live within our means, but we're still addicted to oil, junk food and debt. It's fair to ask whether we're even capable of changing...
...years when the famine struck, but it didn't shake his grip. Ever since then, China has been pressuring him, unsuccessfully, to reform his economy. Kim has been able to resist such demands partly because North Korea is dynastic, with a cult of personality that is freakishly strong; there are no fewer than 30,000 statues and monuments to the Kim family throughout the country. Kim has three sons from which to choose a successor, and it's now become something of a parlor game among analysts to select the front runner. At the moment, that seems...
...overcrowded city street, but of horns, drums, keyboards, and a true composer. Much of the album evokes the same reaction as the opening track. Songs begin with a noise that shocks you out of your comfort zone, causes your body to twitch a bit in response to such strong dissonance, and forces your hand to resist the urge to press next. Even if the songs aren’t initially easy on the eardrums, they are curious and compelling in their unraveling. None of Deacon’s tracks stands still for too long. They either escalate into an explosion...