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...analysis of the Pentagon, defense specialist Richard Halloran argues that the best way to eliminate the glut of low-intensity forces would be to meld the Marines into the Army. Although many experts agree with Halloran, any move in that direction would encounter huge political land mines. Harry Truman once tried to slash the Marines on the grounds that the Navy did not need its own army, but he was beaten by what he described as a Leatherneck "propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's." Aside from the clout of ten Senators and 21 Representatives in the current...
Larsen called the thrill of performing in Carnegie Hall "icing on the cake." And Krok Kevin M. O'Halloran '89 said he was "very excited. [Carnegie Hall] is certainly one of the greatest halls in the world...
...course, the Kroks usually sing for profit--as often as two or three times a week during the school year, O'Halloran says. Alumni donations and revenue from these gigs are the 42-year-old group's sole sources of income--and the means by which it has toured each summer since the 1960s. Larsen says that the Kroks are so well-known from their tours that they get invitations to perform from the likes of the Austrian royal family, the American ambassador to Switzerland and the Japanese parliament...
...think they were the best audiences we performed for on that tour," O'Halloran says of the Muscovites, who gave the Kroks flowers, pins, ribbons and paintings after their songs...
BEING a Krok is "the most intense musical experience you can have at Harvard," O'Halloran says. "We practice two to three times a week during the school year, and we perform together over the summer. We're together all the time--we become a family...