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MOSCOW: Russian soldiers of the 245th motorized rifle regiment began pulling out of Chechnya and heading home to Moscow. But whether the troops will stay out of Chechnya is still very much up in the air. In the past, the Kremlin has announced "withdrawals" which have turned out to be minor troop redeployments and rotations. "There's still a long way to go," says TIME's Sally Donnelly. "About 45,000 Russian troops are still stationed in Chechnya right now. No dramatic peace initiatives will happen before the election, and a lot could still go wrong on the ground...
...winter of 1942-43, MacPherson decided to stop waiting. A recruiter from the Tenth Mountain ski troop came to Kirkland House to encourage Harvard men to volunteer, looking for anyone with either skiing or rock-climbing experience, and MacPherson joined...
...That ski troop had the highest IQ of any troop in the army, because most of them were recruited from college," MacPherson recalls...
...also volunteered for the ski troop that winter. Dee joined with a friend, Courtney A. Crandall '46-'48 with whom he would be together for the next six years, first in the war and then back at Harvard, earning his degree...
...Crandall trained at a camp about 150 miles west of Denver, Dee says, high up in the Rocky Mountains. As Dee tells it, Crandall who was from sunny California, began to regret volunteering for the troop...