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Because his training ended only two months before V-E Day and just six months before Japan's surrender, Hiestand did not see combat directly. He served as an assistant supply officers in the Pacific on a CVE III aircraft carrier dubbed the Vella Gulf...
...November 16, 1976, several Harvard football players visited the Naked i, a club in Boston's Combat Zone, after a team dinner at the Harvard Club...
During the Gulf War buildup, an F-15 fighter feigned an attack on an F-111 warplane "without warning them," Diehl says. "The inexperienced mishap pilot, apparently thinking they were under actual attack, crashed while taking evasive action." The crash was listed as a "combat loss...
Surely one cannot say about any house, even a house which unifies many of its members around one kind of interest, that its community necessarily "lacks diversity." In fact, such a judgement derives its (sham) validity from the very stereotyping it seeks to combat. Think how many different fields of endeavor are grouped under such categories as "art" or "athletics." There is enormous variation in every house, now as ever, because Harvard students are incredibly diverse as a students body--the Admission Committee takes great care to achieve such heterogeneity every year, does...
Galluccio also argued that moving cigarettes behind the counter was primarily intended to combat shoplifting, and said youth access to cigarettes can only be solved by strong law enforcement. He successfully amended the provision mandating behind-the-counter cigarettes, angering supporters of a crackdown on juvenile smoking...