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...every G.I. was as gung-ho as Sarra. In a no-draft America, young people joined the service to get into college, or out of the ghetto, and recruitment painted a grand canvas of career opportunities. Killing, getting killed - this was not part of the pitch. Basic training drilled the killing game into young brains. Teach them to treat the enemy as you would a sniper in Grand Theft Auto. Instill the reflex to fire at a moving target. Foster team spirit with marching songs. Instead of the golden oldie "I don?t know but I been told...," have them...
...tough, they got cool uniforms, and chicks dig 'em." That image barely survived through Sarra's basic training--brainwashing, he and other young men now call it. As for combat, he found it less like a Top Gun video game, shooting MiGs out of the sky, and more like Grand Theft Auto, bombing civilians crossing a Baghdad street...
...current trial in Paris is no less politically sensitive, even if it involves events that occurred almost a generation ago. After his defeat in 1988 presidential elections, Jacques Chirac bounced back into the political fray by winning a so-called "grand slam" in the Paris mayoral elections the next year. His political allies triumphed in every one of the city's 20 districts, but it was a close thing: his sub-mayor in the 3rd arrondissement, Jacques Dominati, squeaked through with a margin of just 20 votes. Opponents charged that Dominati and his allies, including his sons Laurent and Philippe...
...have been, especially here in Cambridge.One of our own, James Blake, was competing at the highest level of this unknown but beautiful game.Blake faced off against the No. 1 tennis player in the world, the incomparable Roger Federer, at the most significant stage in American tennis with his first Grand Slam semifinal berth at stake.Maybe it was too much to expect for this epic match to crack the Nielsen Top 20, to beat out such inspiring entertainment as “Bones” or “Dancing with the Stars.” But for a tennis...
...Spark's “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.” Unfortunately, Wood spends almost a month on “Atonement” by Ian McEwan, which is taught in at least three English department courses. But for your two short papers—a grand total of about eight double-spaced pages—you could easily write on something else...