Stories Collection

  1. I Love Cats I like mice. I think they are nice. But I love cats. I ...
  2. We'd like to know! On unlined paper, draw a picture of someone or something you're g...
  3. President John F. Kennedy made this Thanksgiving Day proclamation in 1961. &qu...
  4. Long ago, a poor country boy left home to seek his fortune. Day and night he travele...
  5. Bad Hair Day I went downstairs. My brother said, "Nice hair." ...
  6. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Captions: It was coming. It was almost time. ...
  7. Man: "Doctor! Doctor! I need some glasses!" Waiter: "You sure do...
  8. Would you like to come to my house for Thanksgiving dinner?" Woodchuck asked Ra...
  9. Winter is coming. It's time for the arctic ground squirrel to get her underground ho...
  10. In this big picture find the goose, sliced apple, numeral 3, butterfly, dolphin, the...
  11. Time with Pa Pa is very special to me. He laughs because he thinks I'...
  12. Do you have a dinosaur drawing, joke, question, or other contribution for Dino Don? ...
  13. Eletelephony Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephant-- ...
  14. I didn't mean to do it. I was being so careful. But it happened anyway. I knocked of...
  15. With a few supplies and a bit of creativity, you can craft an indoor camping set to ...
  16. Every night when I go to bed I start remembering things about school, like projects ...
  17. I have a cousin who is my age, and we like to play together. But every time we play,...
  18. 1. Ask an adult to poke a small hole in the bottom of a plastic party cup. 2. ...
  19. Do giant squids exist? Kayla Grieco, Age 10 New York Yes. Some dead...
  20. Jacob Komar spent a recent afternoon sweeping out his family's garage. That's the so...
  21. Dear Readers, Have you ever been told, "Your imagination is running away ...
  22. Evening Evening gently falls on me A sheet of nighttime's ebony One sta...
  23. Try to suspend a small steel paper clip in midair. ANSWERS: Make Metal Fl...
  24. I'm in fifth grade and I like ballet. Some girls in my class say ballet is for littl...
  25. 1. Ask an adult to cut a small slice off the bottom of a 3-inch foam ball. Use your ...
  26. Something New Something new in the house-- under the stairs, a baby...
  27. I am having sleepovers on three different days, and one of my friends wants to stay ...
  28. I am a snowflake. I toss, tumble, spin, and flip to Earth. Then I land ...
  29. A chunk of ice is floating in a glass of water, and the water is even with the rim o...
  30. Why are all the planets in the solar system round? Richard Truong, Age 10 ...
  31. Last May, we asked you to send us captions for these cartoons. Thanks for the hilari...
  32. The reliance on Title 10 to prosecute war crimes creates an anomaly. The Department o...
  33. Part VI ties the previous sections together and takes a deeper look at the War Crimes...
  34. A. From the Articles of War to the Uniform Code of Military Justice: A Brief History ...
  35. B. The Expansion of Military Jurisdiction Since the founding of the United States, ...
  36. The first revisions of the Articles of War dealt with the offenses of spying and aidi...
  37. During the war in the Philippines, the military continued to exercise jurisdiction ov...
  38. During the hearings, Mr. Felix Larkin, Assistant General Counsel in the Office of the...
  39. Mr. BROOKS: Does it not nullify what we just said above there? Mr. LARKIN: No, beca...
  40. These clause 3 features, however, do not necessarily limit the military's overall abi...
  41. Where clause 1 punishes conduct that internally affects military discipline and order...
  42. [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] To support its conclusion that the capital nature of the offense...
  43. A. The War Crimes Act 1. Statutory Definitions and Legislative History The bill t...
  44. The War Crimes Act expanded U.S. federal criminal jurisdiction over law of war offens...
  45. To what extent may the War Crimes Act be imported into a trial by court-martial throu...
  46. However, the victim's death triggers the availability of capital punishment under the...
  47. 2. The Barrier to Importing (Certain Torture Violations Under the General Article S...
  48. The anti-torture statute and War Crimes Act altered the landscape behind the MOU when...
  49. To use another example, if a U.S. soldier intentionally kills a person protected by o...
  50. All four of the 1949 Geneva Conventions obligated state parties to "enact any le...
  51. Recently Congress addressed the military's conduct in war when it formally condemned ...
  52. The primary failing of Article 92 is that, when used to allege serious violations of ...
  53. Much like Article 93, the crime of assault under Article 128 was not designed with of...
  54. The following status quo needs a change: "We are certainly interested in bringin...
  55. From time to time Congress added offenses to Title 10. In 1983, it added drug abuse a...
  56. Commanders and military legal practitioners will benefit from the addition to Title 1...
  57. Second, if the alleged war crime violation is serious enough, military authorities ma...
  58. A partial exemption to the bar to importing Title 18 capital crimes into Title 10 thr...
  59. D. Amend Title 18 to Eliminate Capital Punishment for War Crimes When federal crime...
  60. The legislative history of the UCMJ distinguished U.S. service members from other cat...
  61. The protections afforded by the Bill of Rights, except those that are inapplicable by...
  62. Although Title 18 war crimes are available to military prosecutors to charge violatio...
  63. (B) torture, (353) as defined by 18 U.S.C. sec. 2340A, (354) or inhuman treatment, in...
  64. (c) no acts of warfare shall be committed by the authorities or by the population; an...
  65. (A) in the case of the death of the victim-- (i) the death of the victim resulted, ...
  66. POTENTIAL WAR CRIMES FROM THE CURRENT CONFLICTS Over the past two years, the media ...
  67. Staff Sergeant Michael P. Williams faces multiple charges of premeditated murder for ...
  68. Second Lieutenant Ilario Pantano, a veteran from the first Gulf War, faced charges of...
  69. Major Gregory McMillion, an Air Force maintenance officer, was convicted of illegally...
  70. Private First Class Lynndie England was convicted in September 2005 by a court-martia...
  71. * Article 134 (three specifications): 1) adultery; 2) indecent acts for watching deta...
  72. Major William Vickers, a Marine Corps reservist, was charged with one specification o...
  73. B. Afghanistan Sergeant James P. Boland was charged in August 2004 with assault, ma...
  74. C. Guantanamo Bay At Guantanamo Bay an unnamed Army specialist was charged with ass...
  75. (7) Although other sanctions, such as loss of rank, loss of pay, extra duties, hard l...
  76. A few UCMJ articles allow for a greater punishment during a time of war. The offenses...
  77. (17) O'Callahan v. Parker, 395 U.S. 258, 306 n.3 (1969), overruled by Solorio v. Unit...
  78. (54) General Jackson created a "special court" to try two British subjects,...
  79. (63) However, under the existing Articles of War, the army could prosecute persons su...
  80. (76) Article 58 limited the temporal jurisdiction of Article 58 to a "time of wa...
  81. First Lieutenant Edwin Hickman was tried under the general article for immersing the ...
  82. Finally, he considered whether the local laws of the occupied territory could provide...
  83. (113) See infra Part IV.B. (114) 18 U.S.C. [section] 2441(c) (2005). (115) In one...
  84. (127) Id. (128) Id. Customs that have been more formally incorporated into regulati...
  85. (138) Two cases that involved a set aside of clause 3 offenses in the wake of Ashcrof...
  86. 721-22). (151) The court noted that general courts-martial first were expressly aut...
  87. (167) 18 U.S.C. sec. 2441(c) defines war crimes as conduct: (1) defined as a grave ...
  88. (188) See War Crimes Act Hearings, supra note 161, at 18 (statements of Rep. McCollum...
  89. (201) War Crimes Act Hearings, supra note 161, at 40 (testimony of the Hon. Robinson ...
  90. (A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or su...
  91. (8) To the extent permitted by international law, any foreign vessel during a voyage ...
  92. (221) See generally MCM, supra note 10, MIL. R. EVID. 401. (222) Id.; MCM, supra no...
  93. (232) The discussion following R.C.M. 307(c)(2) weighs against charging a U.S. servic...
  94. (242) See supra Part IV.B. (243) MCM, supra note 10, pt. IV, [paragraph] 60.b(2). ...
  95. Act of Oct. 28, 2004, Pub. L. No. 108-375, [section] 1091, 118 Stat. 2068 (2004). (...
  96. (271) For one example of how a soldier avoided charges of maltreatment of detainees i...
  97. (277) MCM, supra note 10, pt. IV, [paragraph] 17.c(1). (278) Compare the status of ...
  98. (282) See John W. Gonzalez, Reservis't Receives 129-Day Sentence in Iraq Abuse Case: ...
  99. 3) A child under the age of 16: two years (MCM, supra note 10, pt. IV, [paragraph] 54...
  100. (295) The proposed article is a starting point to re-examine the UCMJ and how it pros...
  101. (304) Previously, drug offenses were tried under the general article or as a derelict...
  102. (330) Bickers, supra note 65, at 922 n.160. In this context, Bickers refers to the fa...
  103. (333) Military law does not preempt the jurisdiction of civilian courts either. A mil...
  104. (347) This text is modeled on the language of the War Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. [section]...
  105. (352) This draft Article incorporates existing UCMJ provisions that contain elements ...
  106. It may be preferable to list the executive-defined Article 134 offenses in the statut...
  107. (366) Geneva Convention IV, supra note 5, art. 147. See IST Statute, supra note 245, ...
  108. (375) Hague Convention, supra note 345, art. 23(g). See IST Statute, supra note 245, ...
  109. (3) seriously diminishes his physical vigor by the injury of any member or organ; is ...
  110. (5) that constitutes other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in i...
  111. (6) that constitutes serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed c...
  112. (401) For a recent example of the exercise of such presidential authority, see Execut...
  113. (410) Douglas Jehl & Eric Schmitt, U.S. Military Says 26 Deaths May Be Homicide, ...
  114. (434) Monica Davey, An Iraqi Police Officer's Death, A Soldier's Varying Accounts, N....
  115. (453) Id. (454) Kates, supra note 451. (455) Id. (456) Brian Kates, Stunner at ...
  116. (478) Id. (479) Id. (480) Inigo, supra note 476. (481) Id. (482) Douglas Jehl...
  117. (508) Id. (509) Helen Kennedy, G.I. Sentenced to Year in Jail Abuse Scandal, N.Y. D...
  118. (536) Arthur Kane, Witness Says Brass Complicit in Abuse, DENY. POST, Mar. 31, 2005, ...
  119. (568) Report: West Will Not Face Court-Martial, supra note 567; Beeston, supra note 5...
  120. (598) Id. (599) Tim Golden, Abuse Cases Open Command Issues at Army Prison, N.Y. TI...
  121. The discussion below proceeds in six parts. Part H considers the purposes and fundame...
  122. Second, procurement officials, like all public employees, are susceptible to the temp...
  123. B. Elements of an Effective Bid Protest System The measure of a bid protest system'...
  124. (2) Meaningful review. Although a bid protest system may give disappointed offerors a...
  125. At the same time, a bid protest system is also well served if both its procedural rul...
  126. A second challenge for developing nations is that they very often lack a sufficiently...
  127. IV. BID PROTEST PROCEDURES IN THE MAJOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AGREEMENTS ...
  128. The Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), (74) is a plurilateral agreement (75) ...
  129. On the matter of ensuring systemic speed and efficiency, the GPA recommends that memb...
  130. NAFTA addresses the principles of independent and meaningful review somewhat less for...
  131. On this point, NAFTA differs drastically from the GPA. Whereas the GPA requires that ...
  132. Regarding remedies, the Directives require that each member state's review procedures...
  133. The international public procurement agreements have undoubtedly played an influentia...
  134. The Model Law is silent on the procedural aspects of its agency-level review mechanis...
  135. Beyond these requirements, the Model Law leaves administrative bodies to consider bid...
  136. In addition to the aforementioned general inducements to speed and efficiency, FAR 33...
  137. In cases in which the procuring agency believes proceeding with contract award or per...
  138. A. Effectiveness of the U.S. Agency-Level Bid Protest System Taking a step back, wh...
  139. Despite these deficiencies, the U.S. agency-level bid protest system still capably pr...
  140. Third, the agency-level system's non-adversarialism, which is the basis for many of i...
  141. The final test of the U.S. agency-level option's viability as a model for developing ...
  142. VIII. CONCLUSION Developing nations face tremendous challenges as they struggle to ...
  143. (4) Interview with Jean-Jacques Verdeaux, Senior Procurement Specialist, the World Ba...
  144. (28) See Schooner, supra note 3, at 710; see also Competition in Contracting Act of 1...
  145. (65) Hunja, supra note 2, at 15; see INDIA, supra note 60, at 20-21; WORLD BANK, REPU...
  146. (77) The first Agreement on Government Procurement was concluded during the Tokyo Rou...
  147. (103) NAFTA, supra note 102, art. 1017(l)(f). The time limit may not be less than ten...
  148. (120) The reason for the lack of time constraints is apparently grounded in the notio...
  149. (129) 1989 Directive, supra note 116, art. 2, [paragraph] l(b); 1992 Directive, supra...
  150. (181) Id. Although disappointed offerors make use of the system in fairly large numbe...
  151. (193) See supra note 106. Major Erik Troff (B.S., Business Management, Northwestern...
  152. The proposed changes in the law of war will be explored in six sections, beginning wi...
  153. After a computer network has been penetrated, the basic concept of a CNAE operation i...
  154. CNAE is establishing itself as an important tool in military arsenals throughout the ...
  155. While several UAVs are in current use, more than sixty separate UAV programs are unde...
  156. Unmanned vehicles are less expensive to build and operate than their manned counterpa...
  157. The first international effort at forming a definition of combatant occurred in the B...
  158. There are at least three situations where civilians can be considered lawful combatan...
  159. While the law of war does not draw a distinction between civilian employees and contr...
  160. There have been several attempts subsequent to Protocol I to further regulate mercena...
  161. The second general rule looks at the nature of the combat-related activity itself and...
  162. When performing this balancing test, collateral damage to civilians is allowed to the...
  163. Civilian employees are directly employed by armed forces throughout the world. In the...
  164. Civilian contractors can be hired to perform almost any service a state requires. Con...
  165. The third category of PMCs--support firms--provides a vast array of services such as ...
  166. Support contractors have also become active in providing services in information rela...
  167. States use contractors to avoid legal and policy constraints on the use of armed forc...
  168. The determination as to what activities constitute direct participation in hostilitie...
  169. Accompanying civilians will almost always be covered by the latter standard because, ...
  170. States have a strong interest in defining direct participation in hostilities narrowl...
  171. These options are not available with respect to civilian contractors because they do ...