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For more than a century, boys were sent to the Florida School for Boys reformatory in the north Florida town of Marianna. Many were beaten brutally and bear the physical and psychological scars to this day. Many boys, though, never came home. They died, some under mysterious circumstances. They were buried in unmarked graves and they were forgotten. Several years ago, a young anthropology professor from the University of South Florida decided she would try to answer the many questions about what happened to these boys and, if she could, return their remains to their families. To get to the...

Scandal highlights lack of women in Secret Service By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press – 1 hour ago </span></span> <script type="text/javascript"> if (gbar.lPWF) { gbar.lPWF(function() { gapi.plusone.render('plusone-div', { "size" : "small", "count" : "true", "href" : "http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jvg2Ipgq5i2cc8pvqOXXvvlsnItQ?docId\x3d687dfe077ee840918f70c824c98f7df1" }); }); } sandbarSharebox.registerMicrodataParser( window.top, document.getElementById('hostednews-article')); </script></p> <p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service agents are often portrayed in popular culture as disciplined, unflappable, loyal — and male. A spiraling prostitution scandal that has highlighted the dearth of women in the agency that protects the president and dignitaries has many wondering: Would more females in the ranks prevent future dishonor?</p><p>Only about a tenth of field agents...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- School officials investigating an apparent hazing ritual at a fraternity house on the University of Central Florida campus in which pledges were found in diapers, fairy wings and women's panties told Local 6 News that there is evidence that several of them may have been sexually assaulted. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at UCF was suspended by its national office and has become the subject of a police investigation after three students were recently found so drunk that they had be rushed to a hospital. University police, acting on a tip, said they noticed loud, aggressive screaming...

(I got this in my email today from info@dscc.org -- tellw) DEAR WILLIAM: To all the Republicans who sit in their air-conditioned offices and talk of the courage it takes for them to keep young kids in harm's way - I say enough. Karl Rove talking about "cutting and running" while he sits on his big, fat backside-saying "stay the course." I say enough! That's not a plan! We've got to have a new direction, and it's clear we need more Democrats in Congress to get that done. No matter how obvious the mistakes in Iraq become, or how many...

Journalists grilled over theft of Iraqi treasures Dominic Timms Friday April 25, 2003 The Guardian US officials have begun a detailed investigation into journalists and soldiers returning from Iraq - dubbed "Operation Iraqi Heritage" - after a Fox News employee was charged with smuggling a cache of Iraqi paintings and bonds out of the country. Benjamin Johnson, a satellite engineer for the Fox News Network, was stopped and searched at Dulles International Airport in Virginia yesterday. US custom officials found 12 Iraqi paintings and an undisclosed number of Iraqi bonds - in effect blank cheques that can be cashed with...

<p>FOUR GIs arrested and charged with stealing nearly $1 million in cash from money found hidden in Baghdad had intended to filch another $12 million, The Post has learned.</p> <p>Army investigators yesterday discovered three aluminum boxes - each holding $4 million in $100 bills - that they believe the sticky-fingered soldiers stashed away to be recovered by them at a later time when the coast was clear, sources said.</p>

<p>GIs Arrested In 1M$ Swag Snag!</p> <p>OUR sticky-fingered GIs have been arrested for trying to steal nearly $1 million of the $700 million in cold cash found hidden on the grounds of several estates in Baghdad, Army officials said yesterday.</p>

<p>Jim nuked this poster, but I decided to put this thread back up for illustrative purposes as to just how patient (and deranged) some of our political opponents are.</p> <p>It's also sickening how obvious some people's biases are. It seems that anytime someone reports something that even remotely casts Israelis in a less-than-favourable light, they immediately branded as anti-Semitic. It must be nice to always use the same retort to try to shut everyone up.</p>

U.S. Troops Investigated for Iraq Theft 11 minutes ago By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. military detectives are investigating five American soldiers in the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from a cache of money in Iraq (news - web sites), a commanding officer said Wednesday. U.S. forces have recovered more than $600 million from hiding places near Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s palace complexes in central Baghdad, said Lt. Col. Philip DeCamp, commander of the 4th Battalion, 64th Infantry Regiment. But along the way, a few U.S. troops apparently tried to stash hundreds...

A special commission took the FBI to the woodshed for significant flaws in the case of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, who was convicted of spying for Moscow for 22 years. Some say that was the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history. The commission was chaired by former FBI and CIA Director William Webster, which, under the circumstances seems a little like asking the fox to guard the henhouse because Hanssen was spying while Webster was director. Anyway, the commission came out with a somewhat scathing 107 page report simply titled "A Review of FBI Security Programs." The report recommends many...