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...that rivals Harvard’s impact on our national history. It is not, of course, my place to compare the relative legacies of these two great institutions, but I was struck during my visits to West Point by an image impressed on the minds of its cadets. At West Point, they call their graduates the long gray line, the queue of soldiers who have put their bodies in front of bullets for the ideals and well-being of their country. When each cadet graduates, he earns his commission as an officer in the U.S. Army and takes his rightful...
Lipsky approaches the cadets like an anthropologist stalking the elusive Yanomamo tribe, and with good reason: he's in a weird, weird place. "Cadets entering West Point step into an irony-free zone," Lipsky writes, "a place where sarcasm has been fought to a standstill." When people say "Huah!" at West Point, they're not doing an Al Pacino impression. "Huah!" is the universal adjective for all things gung-ho and military: a huah cadet would never be caught missing a shave or parking sloppily. A huah cadet would never flunk the regular fitness tests, which include 42 push...
Ensigns Taylor A. Banks, E. Rebecca Gantt, David G. Germakian, John M. Harrington, Jeffrey C. Munns and Victoria O. Santana and second-lieutenants Stacie K. Persons and Alexis M. Presti. Cadet Michael A. Zacchilli also took part in the ceremony but will not receive his official commission until August...
...Cadet coach Dan Roberts knew he wanted Hendricks long before his senior season started. When Hendricks’ father, retired Army veteran Art Hendricks, first suggested playing for the Academy during Trey’s junior year, his son was reluctant. But after visiting West Point—which was “even colder than Harvard”—and getting to know Roberts, Hendricks was torn...
...nothing a grown woman would actually wear. But in Paris, the touches of futurism in his collection for Chanel were more subtle. Tweed jackets came with geometric beading; black leather leggings gave a thigh-high boot effect without the boot. With a vision of luxury first, sexy space-cadet second, Karl in Paris beat Karl in Milan. Black and white In Milan, Dolce & Gabbana used Op-Art patterns on skin-tight dresses. But the look worked better in Paris, where the checkerboard pattern on McQueen's suits showed off the well-cut tailoring on which he's made his name...