Word: arlington
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...Mahmudiya. Within 24 hours of the initial report, Army officers turned the case over to military criminal investigators at Iraq's Camp Slayer. Six days later, the FBI arrested Green near his grandmother's house in Nebo, N.C., where he was visiting after attending a troopmate's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery...
...kids get older, that distance from the other gender must, of necessity, close. Here kids with opposite-sex siblings have a marked advantage. Last year William Ickes, a psychologist at the University of Texas at Arlington, published a study in which he paired up male and female students--all of whom had grown up with an opposite-sex sibling--and set them to chatting with one another. Then he questioned the subjects about how the conversation went. In general, boys with older sisters or girls with older brothers were less fumbling at getting things going and kept the exchange flowing...
...Leadership Institute, based in Arlington, Va. Led by former Reagan aide Morton Blackwell, 64, the institute had a record 3,562 graduates last year. The students, most of whom attend college or high school, learn about p.r., fund raising and direct mail; aspiring young pols get "candidate development" training. In its 25 years, according to Blackwell, the institute has trained some 40,000 conservatives--the movement's field army--including nearly 200 who went on to become state legislators and more than 300 who wound up as staff members on Capitol Hill...
...concert. The aging 46-year-old press box provided almost no resistance to the encroaching flames. High winds made the fire difficult to control, and by the time the six-alarm response from local firefighters had tamed the blaze, the press box had suffered irreparable damage.An 18-year-old Arlington, Mass. man was arrested in connection with the crime. The Crimson reported in September 1981 that it was “rumored” that the man was AWOL from the U.S. Navy and had been whisked back by his superiors after he admitted to starting the fire...
DIED. Carolyn Shaw Bell, 85, dynamic Wellesley College economist credited with upping the number of women in economics and business by inspiring her students to enter those male-dominated fields and helping to produce what the New York Times in 1995 called the "Wellesley factor"; in Arlington...