Word: beasting
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...thriving black market in war knowledge exists for the cadets in e-mails from the front lines. When a member of the class of '05, Mark Erwin, led a platoon of new cadets at Beast Barracks last summer, he took a break from the drilling, cleaning and weapons assembly to tell his charges stories about what his brother Lieutenant Mike Erwin, West Point '02, was learning in Iraq. When Mark invited the new cadets to write Mike a letter, 35 of the 39 did just that. "If you ever doubt that you took the right path in life," Mike wrote...
Entering freshmen--the plebes--spend the summer together in Beast Barracks, designed to turn all those class presidents and Eagle Scouts into hairless, spotless, expressionless soldiers who for the next year or so won't speak unless spoken to. By the end of August, a certain number typically conclude that it was all a big mistake, that a nice liberal-arts menu would be more to their taste. The plebes going through Beast in the summer of 2001 were tough: only 41 members quit, the second lowest dropout level in 15 years. They would need to be, since...
...lives recounted in high style. That has become the sensational British movie genre of our times. Think I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. Or Sexy Beast. Or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The newest, Layer Cake, is among the best of this mutt breed--undistinguished bloodlines that have somehow produced a sleek, fast-moving movie creature...
...creating the queen-witch character in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; of a heart attack, while working in his studio; in Glendale, Calif. In the late 1980s, 40 years after leaving Disney to start his own businesses, he was called back to consult on Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King...
...years and two days later, Herrmann—a 6’4, 220-pound beast with hands “like shovels,” as Harvard coach Joe Walsh once mused—toed the mound as Harvard?...