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...surprising that this administration should respond to a health problem with the military. The military has been its “answer” of choice to not only international law (“UN diplomacy is too slow!”), but to unemployment (“Enlist!”), education (“Enlist and get college paid for!”), and a host of other national problems...
...Harvard College and Harvard Business School alumnus, who graduated into the teeth of the Vietnam War in 1968 when the draft was in effect, and who was forced to lie at that time about my sexual orientation in order to enlist in the U.S. Navy, I resent to this day that I was forced to be dishonest in order to serve our country. Please be vocal in working to allow all citizens to serve in the military without compromising personal integrity...
When Fire-wind sets his sights on Martial Village?so named because everyone there studies martial arts, a big no-no for the new Qing Emperor?the townspeople enlist the help of fighters from the local holy mountain, each gifted with a mystical blade: the Seven Swords. Tsui's purposefully gritty visual style makes it tough to tell the players without a scorecard, but Hong Kong movie veterans Lau Kar-leung, Leon Lai and Donnie Yen lead the way in thrashing Fire-wind's warriors, despite odds of about...
...that he needed the ex-slave to help him destroy the Confederacy and preserve the Union. And so at a time when most whites would not let a black man cross their threshold, the President met Douglass three times at the White House and found a startling way to enlist him in his cause. What was in it for Douglass, who at the midpoint of the Civil War came to believe that Lincoln was a racist who argued that blacks and whites should be kept apart? Douglass came to realize that Lincoln's shrewd sense of timing and public opinion...
...treatment earmarked for African Americans. But if NitroMed thought getting BiDil past the FDA was hard, wait until it tries marketing the drug to its target group. Even during its clinical trials, BiDil ran into resistance. Says Dr. Theodore Addai of Nashville's Meharry Medical College, who had to enlist black patients for a 2001 trial: "We had to try to persuade them that this was not another Tuskegee...