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...abuse scandal. Promoting the National Day of Prayer on May 1, 2003, Weida sent a mass e-mail urging participation and noting that "the Lord is in control." He established a call-and-response routine at campus events. When he shouted "Airpower!" evangelical cadets would yell "Rock, sir!" The cheer was allegedly a reference to Jesus' words that his house is built on rock, intended to provoke curiosity among non-Evangelicals and start conversations about Christ. If so, it also verbally erased any distinction between loyalty to the Air Force and to Weida's God. (The academy has declined interview...
...figured that if I was a dancer, that I would be broke and unhappy and unknown all my life, and I wanted to be in a place where there would be beautiful works of art that could cheer me up,” Maxwell says. “Paris was as far away from New York as I could imagine?...
...Iron Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be experiencing a few problems as California's Governor [May 2]. It might cheer him to read an excerpt from Richard Schickel's Jan. 24, 1977, review of Pumping Iron, the documentary that helped make Schwarzenegger a household name...
...rock covers, a Vietnam War hero dispensing advice at the bar, an exchange cadet from Uzbekistan playing drinking games in the corner--but by and large, it's all Firsties. The mood is convivial and congratulatory. The Firstie Club is like a sports bar where the cadets gather to cheer on their favorite team: themselves...
Several Houses sent large contingents of vocal supporters to cheer on their nominees—Winthrop residents even brought along a canine mascot to escort McCambridge down the aisle during the formal-wear competition...