| May 20, 2008 | - U.S. colleges were unsure what to do with students who write dark or disturbing fiction, fearing that such fiction could be a sign of impending mass murder. Steven Barber, a Navy veteran of the Iraq war and student at the University of Virginia at Wise, was scrutinized after writing a story about the murder of a man resembling his English instructor, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's son Christopher. A subsequent search of Barber's car found three guns, two of them loaded; Barber was expelled, then reinstated, offering that he would now write about “butterflies and rainbows.” “How long would Edgar Allan Poe,” wondered a vice chancellor, “who attended the University of Virginia, have lasted?”
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The Wall Street Journal
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| March 4, 2008 | - The U.S. Navy fired missiles into southern Somalia, targeting what the Pentagon called a “known Al Qaeda
terrorist.”
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New York Times
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| November 2, 2007 | - The U.S. Navy pursued and seized a North Korean tanker hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| August 17, 2007 | - After waiting 55 years for a Purple Heart, Nyles Reed, a 75-year-old Korean War veteran and former Marine, received a form letter from Navy Personnel Command saying the medal was out of stock and suggesting that he buy his own.
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Houston Chronicle
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| April 2, 2007 | -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that he was disgusted with Iran's treatment of 15 Royal Navy hostages.
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Spiegel Online
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| March 23, 2007 | - In the Iraqi territory of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, Iranian forces captured and detained 15 members of the British Royal Navy.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| March 17, 2007 | - Between 10,000 and 30,000 people marched in Washington to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Anti-antiwar protesters, organized by a group called Gathering of Eagles, were angry that someone had put a pink tiara on a Navy memorial statue. “That was the real catalyst, right there,” said one Navy veteran. “They showed they were willing to desecrate something that's sacred to the American soul.”
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WP
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WP
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| March 6, 2007 | - The Navy was researching an electromagnetic beam that would penetrate walls and cause people to fall over and vomit.
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Wired.com
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| February 16, 2007 | -
Congress approved the Defense Department's request to spend $18 million to convert, in preparation for a post-Castro Cuba, a U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo into a shelter that could house 500,000 fleeing Cubans.
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Miami Herald
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| February 14, 2007 | - The Navy announced that specially trained dolphins and sea lions may patrol a military base in Washington State that is vulnerable to attack by swimmers and scuba divers; the sea lions are trained to clamp cuffs around swimmers' legs so that the swimmers can be reeled in.
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AP
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| January 9, 2007 | - In the Persian Gulf, the USS Newport News, an American nuclear submarine, collided with the Mogamigawa, a Japanese
oil tanker.
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Boston Globe
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| June 12, 2006 | - Three detainees at the American prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, committed suicide using nooses made from clothing and bedsheets. “They have no regard for human life, neither ours nor their own,” said Navy Rear-Admiral Harry Harris. “I believe this was not an act of desperation but an act of asymmetric warfare against us.” All three men had been in the camp for about four years and had recently engaged in a hunger strike.
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Scotsman
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| March 18, 2006 | - The U.S. Navy said that it had killed a pirate off the coast of Somalia.
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BBC News
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| November 30, 2005 | - At the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, President George W. Bush gave a speech on the Iraq war. “As Iraqi forces grow more capable,” he said, “they're increasingly taking the lead in the fight against the terrorists.”
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CNN.com
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| September 25, 2005 | - Thirty-six military-trained
dolphins with toxic dart guns were reported missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Guardian
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| July 10, 2005 | - In Afghanistan, the Taliban beheaded ten Afghan soldiers and killed a Navy SEAL.
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The Guardian
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| June 24, 2005 | - The U.S. Navy sent a letter to Fola Coats, an eighty-year-old Arkansas woman, asking her to join the Seabees.
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KATV.com
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| March 6, 2005 | - The U.S. Navy was looking into whether sonar confuses dolphins, causing them to surface too quickly and get the bends.
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Boston.com
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| January 10, 2005 | - More reports surfaced detailing torture in Iraq, this time with Navy SEALs and the CIA as the instigators.
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Sacramento Bee
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| December 29, 2004 | - Six Navy Seals and two of their wives sued the Associated Press for publishing photographs of the men posing and grinning amid hooded prisoners; a reporter found the photos after one of the wives posted them on smugmug.com, a website she had thought was secure.
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New York Times
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| December 4, 2004 | - More photos documenting the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq were acquired by American news sources. The pictures, many taken in the aftermath of raids, show Navy Seals abusing hooded and handcuffed men by sitting on them, holding guns to their heads, and stepping on their chests. A woman whose husband had served in Iraq had posted the pictures on a photo-sharing website, and an AP reporter found them through a Google search.
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AP
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| October 20, 2004 | - The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the world's whales had no standing to sue President Bush over the Navy's use of sonar equipment that kills them.
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Reuters
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| October 23, 2003 | - A former Navy lawyer revealed that President Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert McNamara, his secretary of defense, ordered those who were investigating the 1967 Israeli attack on the American ship Liberty to conclude that the incident, in which 34 American servicemen died, was an accident, even though the evidence pointed overwhelmingly to the contrary.
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Associated Press
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| May 7, 2003 | - Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, nominated an oilman from New Mexico to be secretary of the Navy.
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Associated Press
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| February 11, 2003 | -
Protesters in Shannon, Ireland, attacked a U.S. Navy plane with hammers, spray paint, and human blood.
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| July 24, 2001 | - Vice President Dick Cheney thought it would be a good idea for the Navy to pay his $186,000 home electric bill.
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| May 1, 2001 | - Former senator Bob Kerry admitted that in 1969 he led a Navy Seals commando unit that slaughtered at least 13 unarmed women and children.
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| January 23, 2001 | -
President Clinton ordered the Pentagon to review a study which found that residents of a small Puerto Rican island where the Navy conducts bombing tests have a high rate of a rare heart condition caused by loud noises.
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| 0, 2000 | - the Navy made plans to alter the barracks at Naval Base Coronado in California after satellite imagery showed the buildings were arranged in a swastika.
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Los Angeles Times
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