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...being the only recruit who didn't panic during simulated-chemical-warfare drills. "I'd sit there calmly with my gas mask on," Marrero says, "while a lot of other guys got scared and ran away." It was 1969, and Marrero, a New Yorker born in Puerto Rico, was fresh out of high school at the age of 17. But his composure caught the eyes of Marine instructors - and the next year, he says, he was at Camp Garcia on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, helping guard for 18 months chemical agents being tested by the U.S. Navy...
...door and a balcony, the athletes who usually occupy the Terrace host parties that easily top the 100-guest mark. The balcony deserves recognition in its own right; overlooking the courtyard on two sides, it has room for several kegs, a table, massive speakers, and revelers yearning for fresh air around 1 a.m. Inside, you’ll find couches, refrigerators, and a big-screen TV, as well as a decked-out corner bar. All of this makes for a suite that can provide the setting for everything from rowdy Beerlympic games to the quieter, classier affairs.Runner-Up: Currier...
...Vestis Council. Her designs have been featured in a number of student fashion shows (and in the pages of FM).When asked about his fashion credentials, Sokiente W. Dagogo-Jack ’10, an economics concentrator in Dunster, simply says, “I was born fresh.” We agree. Heba el Habashy ’10, a government concentrator in Kirkland, is already leaving her mark on the fashion world. The Vestis Council comp director has worked at Dior in Paris, IMG models, and most recently at People’s Revolution under Kelly Cutrone?...
Burke. Buckley. Limbaugh? Modern conservatism has decayed from the positive, pragmatic force its founders envisioned into a bitter resistance movement that's given up on fresh ideas, argues Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review. While Richard Nixon backed national health insurance and Ronald Reagan tempered his muscular rhetoric with political flexibility, today's dominant conservatives are little more than "inverse Marxists," clenching an outdated dogma that would sooner see government destroyed than saved. The result is a shrinking movement inhabiting a "fringe orbit" irrelevant to the needs of today's America, an intellectual flatlining confirmed...
...party--its minence grise, former LDP minister Ichiro Ozawa, has been a player in Japanese politics for 30 years--no fewer than 46% of its Diet members will be first-time parliamentarians. But voters were prepared to take a chance on the new team, hoping it will have fresh ideas to address Japan's protracted economic malaise and growing social ills...