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This profile has confounded some traditions about what makes a good soldier. Military conventional wisdom warns against infantry soldiers who are too smart or inclined to dwell on the risks entailed in combat. "But you can't have space-age hardware without space-age personnel," says Lieut. Colonel Alexander Angelle, a former recruiting officer now in the gulf. "Some people ask, 'Don't street fighters make better soldiers?' The answer is 'No, they don't.' They require more discipline and are less able to get the job done...
...What we hope for is that Israel will be able to dwell among its neighbors with peace and security." Levy said. "This security they have thirsted for all too long, and this peace they have been denied...
...upcoming meeting between 15 undergraduates and three members of the search committee will be dominated by "student activists." Does he believe that apathetic people should lead this meeting, so the search committee can gauge their indifference? Perhaps Sneider should have reported that the "activists told him they will not dwell on political issues at this meeting, and that openness and inclusion are our main points...
Isolated from outsiders until the early 1900s, some 24,000 Yanomami still dwell in Brazil and Venezuela. They live in doughnut-shaped communal homes, have no written language, wear no clothes, use rudimentary tools and subsist by hunting, fishing and cultivating a variety of crops, including sweet potatoes and bananas...
...this straight--I tell this tale not for sympathy (I could always dwell on the hair-loss thing for that). No, my strong social conscience refuses to allow me to remain silent. I have been a victim of a vicious societal prejudice...