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...under a list of student houses that were available for the summer, and we finally found one that could accommodate six people. The price was far cheaper than living in local dorms, which charged by the night, and the house had the added benefit of a kitchen and a backyard. The boys who lived there during the year, most of whom were on Georgetown's lacrosse team, would be back in September and were happy to leave us their furniture. We were ready to rent...
...same time. The shift to a single-superpower world plays out not only in summits and treaties but also in the Utah desert, where patriotic citizens who once loved the Pentagon now distrust it enough to wonder about all the chemical-weapons stockpiles waiting to be incinerated in their backyard. The NORAD installation in Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., built to track Soviet missiles, now scans the skies for space junk...
...lawn. On April 11, a four-year-old boy in North Carolina was slain by a Rottweiler when the child tried to retrieve a football from a fenced yard. In Prairie Village, Kans., on Feb. 22, a six-year-old boy was so brutally attacked in his own backyard by an akita that he needed 100 stitches and reconstructive facial surgery...
...fortnight at the Pentagon, where senior officers held their breath amid almost daily charges and revelations about career-ending sexual misconduct. No sooner had the Air Force completed its awkward ejection of Lieut. Flinn than allegations of wrongdoing by officials high and low began landing in the Pentagon's backyard. Army Major General John Longhouser, commanding general of Aberdeen Proving Ground, decided last week to retire after a telephone tipster told Army investigators of an affair Longhouser had had five years ago. Army Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis was relieved of the command of all Army medical operations in the Southeast...
...horses as a trainer. He found his calling, or so he thought, putting together a successful string at Los Alamitos in Orange County, Calif., and training the 1986 world champion, Gold Coast Express. But, as Baffert recalls, "one day I came home to our little house with a tiny backyard, and my wife started telling me about a feature she had just seen on TV about Wayne Lukas, who went from training quarter horses to Thoroughbreds and had this magnificent spread. 'Why don't you do that?' she said...