Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head goofball while growing up, Spacey, 38, moved around California frequently because his father, a technical writer, switched jobs often. Packed off to a military school after setting his sister's tree house on fire, Kevin was booted from the academy when he tossed a tire at a fellow cadet during a boxing match. He finally settled down at 14, when he saw a production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at a high school drama festival and caught the acting bug. He joined a drama class and studied alongside other fledgling thespians, including Mare Winningham and Val Kilmer...
...anyone knows, the dead rat prank did not inflence the one female cadet's decision to leave ? "she just felt the system was not for her," said a VMI counsellor. Military misogynists should not cheer too soon, however: six male freshman have also quit since Monday...
...daughter Isabella. Since then Cuevas has twice asked the Army to let her leave the service, arguing that a pilot's demanding schedule has made it impossible for her to breast-feed her daughter properly. The Army says no, explaining that Cuevas made a deal when she became a cadet at West Point. U.S. taxpayers spent $500,000 educating her at the academy and at pilot training school in exchange for her pledge to stay in uniform until May 2000. In the recent downsizing years, the Army has let many in her 1993 class renege on that deal...
...cadet from West Point leaned forward in his gray uniform and said he wasn't comfortable with the U.N.'s apparent desire to create a supranational army using U.S. troops. Another student said we should stop paying our U.N. dues and starve the international government into submission...
...aware of your surroundings." In other words, don't be a space cadet. If you are walking down the street and happen to spot an individual with a knife and a gun (as we so often happen to do--more often, I should add, than the police officers), be aware of them and understand that they too, along with the trees, flowers and Widener Library, are part of your surroundings...