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...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 his little brother, "just take out these letters...
...ever would have come here," she says. "To be honest, I am scared. But I've learned a lot here, and I think I'm ready to lead people, even to war." The once reluctant cadet has even become an evangelist of sorts. Beyer's little brother Billy, every bit as laid back as his sister was at his age, was inspired by her example and applied to West Point. In part on the strength of an essay about why he would be willing to die for his country, Billy was accepted last week. "I'm telling him he should...
...large data sets to find that a baby’s name has less of an influence on his life prospects than earlier studies suggested. Sure, Temptress turned out to be a bit of a tramp, but Loser Williams grew up to be far more successful than his older brother Winner...
...reveal who's who and what happens. Suffice to say that this adaptation of the graphic novel by John Wagner has four outbreaks of jolting violence to give some kick to a penetrating character study; and that the real Joey Cusack has a savory showdown with his mob-boss brother Richie (played by William Hurt with a rich pleasure in menace). Mortensen, whose Tom is as stalwart as his Middle-Earth Aragorn, is completely convincing and utterly hunky -a man worth loving, no matter...
...party talks. But polite prodding could give way to big sticks if the North detonates a nuclear device. "The situation would slip out of control," says a senior South Korean official. "It would create such an uproar, such a strong reaction from around the world." A brother's patience is not boundless...