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...March. "We're building them up to the point where they are emotionally ready to kill," says Marine Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. Let a 19-year-old sit around for too long, commanders say, and he will start to think about what killing means. Military leaders want to avoid that, calculating that it would be as debilitating as the temperature that creeps up with each passing...
...General Freakly, the Assistant Division Commander, recently told a group of officers, "Our first and most sincere wish is not to expend our nation's blood and treasure, but if we do have to go fight, then God help them." Note the twin sentiments here - a strong desire to avoid conflict, coupled with the absolute certainty of victory...
...being displaced from your elite, all-male social organization. No less a modern sage than www.Ivillage.com, in its “7 Post-Breakup Pick-Me-Up Tips,” reminds the Spee boys that it’s OK to cry and, above all else, to avoid doing something on the rebound that they might one day regret (i.e. don’t run out and rush AEPi). In the wake of a failed relationship, Ivillage also counsels to “Start a Saturday Night Club” and “Close the Door...
These events are an added reminder of students’ responsibilities as potential patrons of nightclubs, bars, theaters or other venues of public gathering and entertainment. People out for the evening should note the entrances and exits to the places they visit, and potentially avoid places that see overcrowded, unhealthy or hazardous. Basement clubs, with one small door for both entrance and exit are a particularly poor choice...
...Harvard’s library fines are some of the highest in the county,” Chopra wrote in an e-mail. “It will be nice to avoid some of them...