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Philip R. Kaufman '98, a presidential candidate, said he sees no need to assemble an elaborate staff to run his campaign, citing Rawlins as a candidate who has organized a troop of volunteers...
...Nicholson arrived in 1992, he was what the CIA calls a declared asset, meaning the U.S. informed the Malaysian government, though no one else, that he was a spy. In the expatriate community, he made little impression except as a genial neighbor and a leader of the Eagle Scout troop that included son Jeremiah. During Nicholson's two years in Kuala Lumpur, one of the main jobs for American intelligence agents was tracking leads in the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. The suspected mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, had passed through Malaysia. While...
...plane returned to Logan, where state police searched the plane. However, officers found no explosives on board, according to Major Bill Kronin, the commanding officer of Troop...
...number of other people, Mac was an intensely loyal, warm and attentive friend, caring and supportive in good times and bad. To say he "marched America with a cool and confident brilliance into the quagmire of Vietnam" is to ignore his prophetic June 30, 1965, memorandum concerning the major troop-deployment decisions that were to transform the conflict into an American war--a memo that characterized the plan for massive U.S. ground-force involvement as "rash to the point of folly." Your article also made a grotesque fiction of Bundy's life after he left the government...
...shows a female unwanted attention, she has merely to sound a distress call to bring an avenging group of females quickly to the scene. Males that misbehave in a nonsexual setting--say, at a feeding site, where they may try to hoard a cache of fruit and prevent other troop members from approaching--are similarly intimidated or chased off. Even males that reserve their aggression solely for one another find their behavior utterly unrewarded. The whole purpose of such mano a mano combat is to secure breeding rights to females, but since bonobo females are powerful enough to resist even...