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...teenage soldiers at the checkpoint call their outpost 25 miles outside Monrovia the God Bless You Gate--because, says Sergeant Kofa Mailer, 17, "when you pass by this gate, God bless you." The gate is made from a long reed and festooned with human bones. A femur hangs beside a pelvis and near a piece of a vertebra. The guards at the God Bless You Gate are members of a Small Boys Unit, government-employed child soldiers. They say they are generals, lieutenants and sergeants, but even with their AK-47s, they look more like schoolchildren. Their leader, General James...
After scanning my registration badge’s barcode at the front gate, I entered into a world of techno gadgets, chatty salesmen and frantic conference attendees, all trying to make the most out of their limited time at one of the most important business technology shows of the year...
...officer was dispatched to Johnson Gate on Peabody Street to take a report of a stolen camcorder...
...college Franklin had planned to attend until his father decided it wasn't worth the cost. She recounts falling asleep under an apple tree while considering whether to send her son to Harvard. As she journeys in her dream toward this temple of learning, she notices that the gate is guarded by "two sturdy porters named Riches and Poverty," and only those who met the approval of the former could get in. Most of the students are content to dally with the figures called Idleness and Ignorance. "They learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter...
...nation. Every year someone heads to USNA. Adam, Brad and Ryan left for the Academy right after graduation. I was psyched to see them that morning of July 4, 2002. My friends and I flashed our driver’s licenses for the guard at the USNA gate, following my usual running route to the waterside field where the plebes hold morning formation...