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This handy little history lesson has its moments. Silas P. Howland ’08 played his various roles—soldier, can-can girl, and George W. Bush spoof Buzzy Polk—with a relaxed slapstick style that the audience responded to, harmonizing with a script that didn’t take itself too seriously. Though at times the actors came across as uncomfortable with this lack of seriousness (the history genie was subject to some tense over-acting), everyone had their moments, so that at worst the audience response came out as an even mix of laughter...
...Iraq? As a soldier's mother, I say bring the troops home from Iraq now. The truth is that the American public was deceived by the Bush Administration about the reasons for the invasion of Iraq [Sept. 27]. And now our leadership is stubbornly adhering to a destructive course. Many Americans do not want our troops there. They are stuck in a quagmire largely of our government's making. There ought to be honest and compelling reasons for the risks to our service members and for the hardships imposed on their families and our communities. So far, the explanations given...
...last time Chris Shannon voted for a President, it was for a Republican, Ronald Reagan, and the year was 1980. This time, the 42-year-old former U.S. special-forces soldier, who has lived in Japan for the past seven years, will be casting his ballot for Democrat John Kerry. Shannon is eager to vote because he thinks President George W. Bush has mishandled the Iraq war. But Shannon is doing much more than exercising his own civil rights: he's also helped register some 200 other Tokyo-based Americans and is leading a group of them to Florida...
...Pentagon believes that in a crunch it can bring in more soldier volunteers by offering new recruits higher salaries and benefits and dangling bonuses as high as $40,000 for highly trained and specialized troops to re-enlist. (The average soldier receives $7,500.) All four active-duty services met their recruiting goals for the fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30. "They see their country under attack," says Army Lieut. General Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard. "They're willing to step forward and answer the call to colors." But given the scale of the U.S. commitment in Iraq...
BORN to PRIVATE FIRST CLASS LYNNDIE ENGLAND, 21, U.S. soldier seen holding a leash in some of the most notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and Specialist Charles Graner Jr., 36, also shown in prison photographs; a son; in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The parents are among seven reservists charged in connection with abuse at the prison late last year. The West Virginia mother is scheduled to stand trial in January on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 38 years. NAMED PRINCE NORODOM SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and son of ex-King Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated...