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Still, morale and discipline were not always perfectly paired. Gemmill strongly discouraged dating, but officers admit many crew members secretly fraternized. Half a dozen couples went to the captain and announced they had fallen in love. Last month a male and a female crew member videotaped themselves having sex in a ship's compartment. The man was caught after he showed the tape to other sailors. "We have taken the focus away from being a potent fighting ship and made the Ike a showboat," grumbled a lieutenant. "We succeeded in this deployment, but would we succeed in combat...
...press release reads: "Josh Liston, the President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Council, the student government of Harvard College, has called upon the College to re-admit Gina Grant and to specifically explain to the campus why her previous offer was rescinded...
These are six-and seven-year-olds, I admit. They're not yet expected to be polite, gracious members of society. But when I chatted with my sponsor, who has taught first grade for 25 years, she said that 10 and 15 years ago, she didn't have to teach kids how to blow their noses. She didn't have to remind kids as much to wash their hands. They learned these social skills where they should learn them--from their parents, at home...
...hope in the end that [Harvard] will be ableto admit her, even though I don't believe ahistory of verbal abuse gives you the right tokill your mother and then cover it up," Dershowitzadded, referring to the years of emotional abusefrom her mother Grant's attorneys say shesuffered...
Harvard made the correct decision when it decided not to admit Gina Grant. The murder is not the issue: she has completely paid the debt society determined she owed. Grant should be denied admission because she misrepresented herself--lied, either with an outright lie or with a lie by omission--on her application. With that action, Grant proved she does not merit admission to an academic and residential community that takes veritas as its motto...