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...Renaissance Man in the hopes that we won't notice that the story makes no sense. It proposes that the only job available to Bill Rago (Danny DeVito), a defrocked adman, is teaching an ill- defined lit course to a multicultural squad at an Army base. Why the commanding colonel thinks these studies are vitally necessary is not made clear. Especially since the kids turn out be quite sweet and bright and mostly doing fine in basic training. It's all really just a con on the part of the moviemakers, led by director Penny Marshall. The insensitive and materialistic...
Some would suggest it was a silly question to bother her with, at this stage in a brilliant career; a little like pestering a star athlete who has led his team to a brace of championships about his religious preference. National Guard Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer had earned a Bronze Star for supervising a hospital during the Vietnam War; in 1985 the Veterans Administration named her Nurse of the Year over 34,000 other candidates; and most recently, she had served as chief nurse of the Washington National Guard. But somebody's curiosity got the better of him: during a security...
Joining the growing phalanx of courts around the country that have attacked the military ban on gays, a federal district court in Seattle ordered the Washington National Guard to reinstate Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, a highly decorated nurse and a lesbian. Although the decision struck down as unconstitutional the Pentagon's old, pre-1994 prohibition against gays, the court's reasoning provides ammunition for assailing the new "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy...
...factious campaign, Oliver North took 55% of the vote and won Virginia's G.O.P. Senate nomination, defeating former Reagan budget director James Miller III. But the former Marine lieutenant colonel, a key Iran-contra figure, may have to face Democratic incumbent Charles Robb without total G.O.P. support. Virginia's Republican Senator John Warner had threatened to back the expected bid of former state Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman, who would run as an independent, in the event of a North victory...
...rock. The only way to get off the beach was to blow up a big tank trap that was blocking our way. Finally one of our guys took the trap out with a bangalore torpedo ((a metal tube packed with high explosives)). They sent me to find our commander, Colonel George Taylor, and tell him we'd opened a breach. I stood up and tried to run. When you run over unconscious men, or men lying on their bellies, it's tough to keep your balance. You go into the water, but the water is washing bodies...