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...that and more. She was a straight-A student, a cheerleader, a hurdle jumper and a swim-team member. A dance champion by age 5, she choreographed her own routines, sang and did comedy. She was determined to follow in the footsteps of her mother, an Air Force lieutenant colonel with a 20-year career in biomedical research, and her stepdad, a reservist who regularly ships out to battle zones as a medical technician...
...Even before 9/11, Malaysia had started clamping down on Islamic fundamentalism, and authorities there have so far detained some 70 suspected radicals, including five UTM academics. But they are continuing to find black sheep in other unexpected places. On Feb. 20, a former lieutenant colonel in the Malaysian Army, Abdul Manaf Kamsuri, was arrested on suspicion of having ties to JI. Abdul Manaf, a high-flying officer who won three merit awards when he graduated from Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy, served nine months in Bosnia as part of Malaysia's U.N. peacekeeping force from 1993 to 1994. Malaysian officials...
...found traction here. The young troops who would be first into Iraq from the south are training to achieve peak physical and mental condition in the first few weeks of March. "We're building them up to the point where they are emotionally ready to kill," says Marine Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. Let a 19-year-old sit around for too long, commanders say, and he will start to think about what killing means. Military leaders want to avoid that, calculating that it would be as debilitating as the temperature that creeps up with each passing...
...hundred years ago, being appointed a Kentucky Colonel would have put Pacelli at the head of the state militia. The appointments became honorary in 1885, after the militia was disbanded, but even honorary colonels are charged with a formidable task. Former Kentucky Gov. Flem D. Sampson, a legend in colonel history, pronounced the group in 1931 “a great non-political brotherhood for the advancement of Kentucky and Kentuckians.” Seventy years later, Pacelli is proud to serve the same lofty ideal, determined to meet the high standards of his office and “throw...
...Sanders didn’t lend Pacelli’s title enough prestige, the young Colonel can also count among his honorary peers Colonel Fred Astaire and Colonel John Paul II. Both are celebrated figures in colonel lore—Astaire for helping relieve the effects of the Flood of 1937 with a fund-raising show, and the Pope for “mentioning the Colonels to the Heavenly Father.” The colonels’ website, www.kycolonels.org, is also a one-stop shop for colonel merchandise, from official golf towels and “Taste of Kentucky?...