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...past decade, Hanks has worked overtime to support the National World War II Museum in New Orleans - a pet project of the late historian Stephen Ambrose, on whose book Band of Brothers was based. On March 2, the museum, which will soon open a Pacific-theater wing, hosted a reception after a local screening of The Pacific, attended by the last wave of old-timers who consider V-J day a personal accomplishment. Wherever Hanks travels, veterans accost him with thank-yous. "It's pretty heady," Hanks says. "But now the Korean War guys have started coming...
...witnessed Graf in command, Kaprow was an independent Navy outsider not subject to Graf's orders. Questions continue to swirl about how Graf not only retained her command but kept getting promoted despite reports from eyewitnesses like Kaprow. Graf has declined interview requests, and there has been scant support offered for her by Navy colleagues on naval blogs or elsewhere. An admiral expressed concern on Friday over what he called a "lynch mob" mentality about the case, as even conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh weighed in: "This woman sounds like a real Cruella...
...However important these elections may be, they may not offer much immediate drama. With thousands of polling places, paper balloting and overseas voting, it may take several days to tabulate and announce the results. And since no one of the major coalitions appears to have enough support to form a government, it's likely that the real action won't be at the ballot box, but in back-room wheeling-and-dealing to form a government, which could take weeks. (See pictures of Iraqis preparing to vote...
...Maliki's main rival is former Prime Minster Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya coalition, which also favors a stronger central government. Allawi's coalition is billing itself as a more secular alternative to the current government, and draws more support from Sunni groups, who are going to play a more significant role in this election than in 2005, when they boycotted the political process in protest of the American occupation. (See pictures of the U.S. troops in Iraq...
Committee members voiced general support for the idea of expanding on-campus programming initiated by student groups such as the Institute of Politics and Harvard Undergraduate Television...