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When Starcevich went back to the Army in 2005, he specifically requested to be posted with an infantry unit. "I want the nitty-gritty," he told his father. But when he arrived in Baghdad, it was worse than he'd expected. "Hell has an address after all," he wrote to his mom in an e-mail at the time...
...like the "boy in the bubble." When Julia was 3 months old, she had a bone-marrow transplant that left her with a functioning immune system but unable to breathe on her own. Her hearing was impaired as well. She spent the next two years in the intensive-care unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in Manhattan...
...Knowles’ condition has stabilized, according to his wife. He entered Massachusetts General Hospital in late April, suffering from pneumonia and sepsis. “Jeremy is no longer in critical condition, but is stable and doing well and hopes soon to be out of the Intensive Care Unit,” Knowles’s wife, Jane S. Knowles, said in a statement this week. Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine—the man who first appointed Knowles dean in 1991—has been regularly checking in on Knowles and expressed similar optimism...
...demoralized reservists in the 372nd crossed the line. William Lawson, uncle of Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick II, claims that his nephew and the other guards were following orders when they tortured and sexually humiliated Iraqi prisoners. The MPs told investigators they did it because officers in the military-intelligence unit and civilian contractors working with them told them to "loosen up" men for interrogation. Sabrina Harman, who appears in one photograph grinning behind a pile of naked detainees, told the Washington Post that the MPs were instructed by military-intelligence officers to "make it hell" on the prisoners in order...
...diplomacy from the Foreign Ministry to the Elys?e, Sarkozy seems intent on completing that process. Sarkozy advisors say that will involve the creation of a National Security Council similar to the one used by U.S. Presidents to provide him advice and analysis on international and diplomatic issues. The unit will import around 30 foreign policy strategists from the Foreign Ministry, and it will be directed by Jean-David Levitte - a former Chirac advisor, United Nations ambassador and, since 2002, a well-respected ambassador...