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...machine and vending machines “will remain available if demand is sufficient.” Widener Café will also continue to have microwave ovens and hot water machines, and plans are underway to expand vending machine selections, the Web site said. Jane Kelley, an 18-year veteran of HUDS and the sole employee staffing the Widener Café, said that she decided to accept the University’s early retirement incentive package after administrators finalized plans to close the Café in late April. She added that she understands the University’s rationale...
...Monday it was Defense Secretary Robert Gates metaphorically wielding the ax from the Pentagon platform. Gates announced that he had asked for and received the resignation of his top commander in Afghanistan, Army General David McKiernan, after McKiernan spent only 11 months in that theater. The 37-year veteran will be replaced by Army Lieut. General Stanley McChrystal. Army Lieut. General David Rodriguez, the Defense Secretary's own top military aide, is to serve in a newly created post as McChrystal's deputy...
...policies and actions toward its recruiters, which drive some of our most dedicated soldiers to suicide. More aptly put, it is murder, and I have little doubt that the Army will cover it up, accept no responsibility and take no meaningful corrective action. My personal pride as an Army veteran has suffered yet another wound. David J. Doyen, Landenberg...
...drive some of our most dedicated soldiers to suicide [The Dark Side of Recruiting, April 20]. More aptly put, it is murder, and I have little doubt that the Army will cover it up, accept no responsibility and take no meaningful corrective action. My personal pride as an Army veteran has suffered yet another wound. David J. Doyen, LANDENBERG...
...best actors have a shorthand for expressing the emotional life of a character that even the real character can’t quite express as comfortably,” he says. Haney cast up-and-comer Nicole Beharie as female protagonist Dee Roberts. Joining Beharie in the film are veteran actors like Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson, and Charles Dutton.The 2000 U.S. presidential election constitutes both the political and visual subtexts of the storyline, with frequent shots of the campaigns of George W. Bush and Al Gore ’69 spliced into the film. Not only does this maintain...