Word: forte
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...down this week in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the 101st; a couple of weeks ago with the 3rd Division down at Fort Stewart; down at Fort Hood recently, with the 4th ID and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. These are just remarkable men and women. And the all-volunteer force has fundamentally transformed the services because they went from a posture and organization where they didn't have to pay a lot of attention to personnel policy because they could compel service. The selective service system coughed up troops, and they put them in with the units, and away they went...
...Continental Army general was a hero early in the Revolutionary War but switched sides and plotted to deliver to the British the fort at West Point, N.Y.--where he was commander. He fled and joined the British army before he could be tried for treason...
...chief of a storied Cambridge educational institution announces an impending resignation in early 2006. The school turns to an experienced administrator from within its own ranks to hold down the fort for a year. Meanwhile, school leaders convene a search committee that scours the country for a long-term replacement.No, that’s not Harvard being described. It’s the University’s neighbor to the east of Annenberg, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), which is facing administrative changes of its own.This summer, Christopher Saheed was named acting principal of Cambridge’s only...
Williamson was a second-round draft choice by the Oakland A's in 1971, out of a small town in Oklahoma called Ada. He was tall and handsome and hard throwing but without much discipline. He lasted six years in the minors, including a stint with the Fort Lauderdale Yankees, before a bad arm and some bad habits landed him back...
...Classmate Paul Lushenko, now an army intelligence officer at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., says that the news of Emily's death hit everyone in the Class of 9/11 hard. "I think that we were under some sort of inability to understand that probably some of our classmates were going to die," he says. "I don't know. You just don't think it's going to happen...