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David Westfall, who is the Schipper professor of law and the Gray professor of law, wrote in an e-mail that although he was not aware of the details of the Longfellow bequest, he imagined “that it would not be easy” to get around the restriction...
...basic utility for the profession of arms. Far beyond the bright lights of the Firstie Club, there's a twilight war that West Point's class of 2005 will soon ride out to join. With each story swapped, every joke told, the cadets test the strength of their long gray line, that celebrated bond that is both lariat and lifeline, roping them into war and pulling them back out as safely as possible...
...took the right path in life," Mike wrote his little brother, "just take out these letters and read them. These kids really looked up to you and respected you. One girl wrote how you made her cry but in time you made her a better leader." The long gray line, now 6,000 miles long, not only provided succor to a lonely lieutenant but also came back to give a first-time cadet leader a sense of his own potential...
...composer-producer-DJ working under the name Danger Mouse (often in a mouse costume to ease his stage fright), Burton had a solid career on music's experimental fringe when it hit him: mix the Beatles' White Album with Jay-Z's Black Album, and you get a gray album. "I was cleaning my house at the time," says Burton. "It wasn't my deepest thought ever." Still, he spent three cloistered weeks in his bedroom translating snippets of Beatles music into hip-hop rhythm and synchronizing them with Jay-Z's vocals. Then he burned The Grey Album...
...Almost from the first day, however, the gray facade melted away. As I followed them to their classes, team practices, year-end banquets, and sessions at the rifle range, I began to see that our three cadets-indeed, nearly every cadet I spoke with-were incredibly self-aware and candid, each with a vastly different story about their path to West Point, and different reasons for why they decided to stay the course, even as it led to combat...