Word: berets
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...have been ominous signs," he writes, "that our fragile liberties have been dramatically at risk since the 1970s when the white-shirt-blue-suit-discreet-tie FBI reinvented itself from a corps of 'generalists,' trained in law and accounting, into a confrontational 'Special Weapons and Tactics' (aka SWAT) Green Beret-style army of warriors who like to dress up in camouflage or black ninja clothing and, depending on the caper, ski masks." Note the penultimate noun in that sentence: in Vidal's account, it's those who job it is to fight crime who are the criminals, and who pull...
...specialty, Ted J. Kaptchuk, OMD, is, in a word, unconventional. Poised for a professional, intellectual interview at this Harvard Medical School (HMS) assistant professor’s home, I’m surprised when a young, sleepy-eyed boy answers the door. A bearded man with a black beret, plaid shirt and short ponytail—the man who’s asked me to please call him Ted—follows his son into the foyer. “Take off your shoes and come on in,” he says...
...fact the costumes become a wonderfully effective tool in bolstering the comic elements of the play. When Bunthorne walks on stage with his beret, black turtleneck and absurd purple and black striped knickers or when the Dragoon Guards make their dramatic change in costume from military uniform to aesthete-in-training frocks, the audience can’t help but roar with laughter...
...When they read his resume, I couldn't believe it," said a senior White House aide. "It just kept going." Carmona grew up in Harlem and dropped out of high school at 17. He joined the Army and served as a medic in Vietnam, eventually becoming a decorated Green Beret. After finishing his Army service and earning his GED, he went to college and medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1985 he moved to Tucson and started the area's first trauma-care program. Since one stressful job apparently wasn't enough for Carmona, he joined...
...Hall to search for a suspicious individual claiming to be a security guard “checking the offices.” The suspect is described as a 40-year-old 5 foot 7 inch white male, with brown hair and a thin face wearing a blue jacket, brown beret and gray shoes and carrying a blue backpack. Officers were unable to locate the suspect...