Word: armorer
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...suit and white shirt. You do all these things that say, 'I'm normal. I'm the same as everyone else.' The effect of that hurt is it says, 'Don't get close to me. I have come back from the dead.' You keep adding and adding to that armor over 30, 40, 50 years, it becomes a barrier to decision making, a barrier to intimacy. It becomes a barrier to everything. Piercing that armor is very, very difficult. I don't know anyone who has done it. He has no close circle of friends. And in this place, friends...
...next few months he reported that Viper Gary Bauer allegedly boasted about a rocket he built that could "take out a police car." Finis Walker, a Viper "captain," said the group's heavy weapons were needed to deal with swat teams, and the explosives were necessary to destroy heavy armor. Soon after the group began to discuss "urban warfare" and "race riots and martial law," the ATF moved...
...four air bases in Saudi Arabia alone, but the U.S. refuses to give the exact number). A naval station in Bahrain, headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, is host to 32 ships, including a carrier deck full of warplanes. Kuwait and Qatar have each agreed to store enough armor, artillery and supplies for an entire brigade of U.S. soldiers; a similar accord with the United Arab Emirates is in the works. And finally, the U.S. is constructing a "noose" of five air bases around the region that could help stifle any provocations on the part of Iran and Iraq...
...traditional Russian bylina, or folk epic, a dashing warrior in shining armor rescues the good Czar from the evil influence of his scheming boyars. Much the same sort of tale seemed to be unfolding as a rapid-fire Kremlin drama last week. It began on Tuesday, two days after the initial round of the presidential elections in which retired Lieut. General Alexander Lebed made a surprisingly strong third-place finish and Boris Yeltsin came in first. In Yeltsin's office that day, Lebed, 46, a hero in a dark business suit, perched stiffly on the edge of an ornate chair...
...approval of a return to neighborhood schools back in 1986, for the stated purpose of increasing parental involvement and arresting white flight. Black parents had sued to block the new plan because it would immediately render 10 elementary schools, many of them serving housing projects, 100% black. Sociologist David Armor, retained as an expert witness by the school board, predicted that if Norfolk's crosstown busing continued, the whole school system would soon become 75% black, making racial balance impossible. "Civil rights groups have always discounted the importance of whites," he says today, "which has always been a mystery...