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...With the end of the Early Action program next fall, the admissions office will be expanding its recruiting efforts in the months of November and December both in the United States and abroad, Fitzsimmons said. He added that recruiting for next year’s class has already begun—this being the second week of a three week, 60-city tour by admissions officials...
...students accepted off of the wait-list this week was Emma W. Wood, a senior from Phillips Academy. She said she had applied Early Action to Harvard, was deferred and then waitlisted during regular admissions period. In the interim months, she sent extra letters of recommendation to the admissions office...
...enough to realize, says a senior official, "this was going to be a problem." Aides to Bremer and Secretary of State Colin Powell say that as early as last fall, both men raised the issue in meetings with the rest of the Administration's national-security team. Yet no action was taken until mid-January, when Specialist Joseph Darby, a member of the 372nd Military Police Company, got hold of some of the incriminating photographs. He slipped an anonymous note under the door of a superior officer, reporting the misbehavior, and then turned over the photos proving...
...abuses. Though U.S. officials insist that the Abu Ghraib crimes were rare instances of misconduct, the problem may well be more widespread. Britain's Ministry of Defense is investigating 12 cases of civilian death, injury or mistreatment in Iraq at the hands of British soldiers, and is considering action against troops for six deaths. Charges of mistreatment of Iraqi detainees by four British soldiers are also being investigated...
...were approved by a senior officer. A senior Pentagon official says Rumsfeld has taken a personal interest in coming up with a dollar figure to compensate Iraqis who have been wronged. Abizaid tells TIME that he thinks the outrage will fade as the U.S. demonstrates its willingness to take action against the perpetrators. "Our openness about it," he says, "is a lesson about the rule of law." As the President told Arab interviewers, "A dictator wouldn't be answering questions about this...