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After the Christmas break, Stone introduced what players called “Harvard boot camp” to help the team build more endurance and keep its defensive presence at the end of the season...
...abstract norm started a few years later, in fifth grade, when we were called to the playground to compete for the President's physical fitness certificate. The hidden purpose of this cold war--era program was, I presume, to transform the public schools into a vast network of junior boot camps. The criteria for obtaining the certificate were ominously unvarying and exact. If a child couldn't do a certain number of chin-ups or complete the 50-yd. dash in a certain number of seconds, he was failing not only himself but the whole nation...
...look at Greg Zielinski--Z to just about everyone on post--and for a split second you wonder whether he is actually built out of some material other than flesh and blood. Everything about him shines--his nearly shaved head, every buckle and boot, his manner. His father says if Zielinski hadn't gone to West Point, he probably would have been president of a fraternity. He is pathologically social, both liked and looked up to by fellow cadets, especially those who bleed Army green. "Z?" they say. "He's huah," delivering the words with the appropriate Southern drawl--"heezoowah...
...reports about Iraq, the U.S. "occupation army" has become simply the "American military." In coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, however, a recent report on the Israeli-constructed wall separating the two sides included extended footage of an Israeli soldier pinning a Palestinian to the ground with his boot. The repetitive broadcasting of such images is one of the reasons that U.S. critics charge al-Jazeera with anti- Western bias...
...Well, forget it. The films were both busts. And, whatever the lofty intentions, they were exploitation films - I mean, they exploited an audience's lurid curiosity about the harm showbiz icons could inflict on themselves and others - and failed ones to boot...