Word: colins
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...Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before the Senate leaves town in August. Worries about a double standard aside, many military experts said the uniformed services desperately need a leader with impeccable credentials in the realm of sexual ethics. In the wake of Cohen's dispensation, even Colin Powell, Shalikashvili's predecessor, privately grumbled to friends that an admitted adulterer is not the kind of leader the Pentagon wants as it investigates charges of sexual misconduct in the U.S. military...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: If William Cohen insists on standing by his man, he may soon be standing alone. Despite backing from Cohen and current Joint Chiefs chair John Shalikashvili, some military officers and even Colin Powell say that Joseph Ralston should back out of consideration for the military's top post. President Clinton may soon agree, reports TIME's Mark Thompson. "I can't see why the President would want to endure this nomination process. It promises unsavory televised hearings, focused not on military matters, but on personal matters. It's not as if Ralston is a popular figure or something...
...Force version of events starts not with Zigo but with a wine-tasting party Flinn gave last June for her soccer team. According to a prosecution report made available to TIME, among the guests was Senior Airman Colin Thompson, whom Flinn had met a few months before. During the party, the report alleges, Flinn and Thompson had sex on the lawn of her residence; then Thompson spent the night. According to the report, Thompson claimed that Flinn, his superior in rank, told him that she knew what they did was wrong but that no one would ever find out about...
...most of your list influential is the same one that makes people join crazy cults that promise instant family, instant society, instant salvation. There were three people on your list who have the stature and the ability to provide true moral leadership and vision to the world--Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and George Soros. Has American society unraveled to such an extent that you could not find 22 more people like them? MAYUKH K. DHAR Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
...answer to David Brinkley. "Young people are not optimistic," Chuck says. "We've got to figure out ways to inform them. They're gonna be running things really soon." His first mission (he won't call it an assignment) was to revisit the Philadelphia site of Colin Powell's volunteerism rally to see if the locals are better off now that famous people have painted over their graffiti. "A lot of politicians and bigwigs came by and did their thing," says Chuck. "Everybody looks for the quick, quick, quick story, but results happen over a long time." Rap fans...