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...such as Viacom, Stride Rite and Oxygen Media to cover the $2.3 million budget for the march. The Bell Campaign, a gun-control group funded by heirs to the Levi's blue-jean fortune, is picking up any shortfall. Dees-Thomases now has a small paid staff and a battalion of volunteers who answer 75 phones and stuff mountains of envelopes. Dees-Thomases was pleased last week when the National Park Service raised its attendance prediction to 150,000, which would make the march the largest rally ever held for gun control...
...Meth. or Luth. 21. Sudan's rebel gp. 22. Where the Eagle landed 23. They're backing 15-Across 24. Wing: prefix 25. They expect to boost output 27. Venetian blind 29. Shi'ite leader 30. Portrait artist's "Done!" 31. __ Nicole Claunch (first woman to be appointed battalion commander at VMI) 36. Magnolia sound-track song 38. Makes a new version in yet another language 40. Dazed and confused 41. Prom-night trauma 42. Pay-stub inits. 43. Jung is its CEO 44. Polite chap 45. They're never returned 48. Be out of sorts...
...like everybody else." After dealing with that hectic schedule for three years, Porges was glad to get some extra shuteye this year. She exudes, "I managed to have no morning classes though for my senior spring, so I can finally have a true college life. " Every Monday midshipmen attend battalion labs, two-hour lectures dealing with varying topics including courtesies, sexual harassment and visiting veterans. And they also must attend early morning classes, like scintillating three-hour navigation seminars...
...primarily male group." That status though, has not hindered her from advancing in the field. Porges boasts, "Women are given the same opportunities as the men in all ROTC endeavors-a fact that can be clearly seen by the number of women we have as midshipmen leaders in our battalion. I, in fact, was 'Battalion Commander,' the top midshipmen billet last semester-which basically means I ran the show from the midshipman's standpoint...
With the beer gone, soldiers drifted away. Winchell was taking care of the battalion's mascot, an Australian blue heeler named Nasty. Dogs aren't allowed in barracks rooms, so he pulled a cot from the third-floor room he shared with Fisher, 26, onto the open-air landing. What happened next is based on what Fisher has told the Army. His credibility is questionable, though, because he faces charges of lying to Army investigators, in addition to conspiring with Glover to murder Winchell and being an accessory to the crime. Sometime after 2 a.m., Fisher said Glover saw Winchell...