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Harvard seems to recognize the importance of a veteran presence on its graduate campuses and seeks to capitalize on the knowledge they bring. In February, the Kennedy School brought together a panel of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and featured a keynote address from Lieutenant General Douglas E. Lute, Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.The event brought together a panel of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and featured a keynote address from Lieutenant General Douglas E. Lute, Director of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...intangibles may serve as Amaker’s greatest challenge. Despite his success at Seton Hall and his NIT championship with the Wolverines in 2004, Amaker has been accused of breaking down his veteran players during the season, challenging them to a point that mid-season collapses became the norm in Ann Arbor. Two years ago, Michigan started the season 16-3 before falling in seven of its last nine regular season games to plummet into the NIT, and a similar plummet occurred just last year...
...October 28, 2002: Tucson, Arizona Failing University of Arizona Nursing College student and Gulf War veteran Robert Flores, 40, walks into an instructor's office and fatally shoots her. A few minutes later, armed with five guns, he enters one of his nursing classrooms and kills two more of his instructors before fatally shooting himself...
...that I'm really passionate about food and wanted to create something beautiful that had the best quality products and service." Sounds like p.r. boilerplate, but Cojean has the bona fides to back it up - a grand irony that is a little-known secret: he's a 15-year veteran of McDonald's Europe. Literally the day after he resigned as one of the hamburger giant's directors of research & development in 2000 he began writing up the business plan for his hip and healthy restaurant chain. The move was a radical one, even beyond the significant change in cuisine...
...eventually read the blogs or see the viral video. A few have adapted, like Stephen Colbert, whose routine at last year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner was decried by attendees as rude and shrill - but made him a hero to his YouTube audience. Imus, a 30-plus-year veteran of radio shock, seemed to underestimate the power of the modern umbrage-amplification machine. The day after his remarks, Imus said dismissively on air that people needed to relax about "some idiot comment meant to be amusing." Shockingly, they did not, and by the next day, Imus had tapped...