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Captain Chris McKinney, who led an infantry company during the first months of the Iraq invasion, had been brought to West Point to teach Fundamentals of Tactics. His easy ferocity inspires wide measures of terror and devotion among cadets. "I just hate that guy sometimes," says one, "but I would feel safest going into combat with him over my other instructors, definitely." To Zielinski, whose unit at Air Assault School had to withstand McKinney's withering inspection, the weakest instructors are the ones who act like your buddy. "When I see someone being tough with me, like Captain McKinney...
...joke says, is "the most heavily mock-defended acre in the world." The occasion of the day is the pending retirement of several of West Point's highest officers, the heads of History and Social Sciences, the dean of Academics, and cadets are performing one of the tasks they hate most: parading across the field, a thousand of them in their stiffest formal grays, plumes whipping in the heavy wind...
...about the great unknown - other people - without ever losing poise or focus. And it made me cry. So shoot me. Some would: Once You're Born was also the critical consensus for worst film of the festival. Earlier today, when Jury member Jacquot asked critics which film they would hate to see win, my friend John Powers trumpeted: "the Italian film." Jacquot gave John a reassuring smile. "Don't worry," he said. (Jacquot confided that he thought the competition contained only one great film: the Cronenberg...
...Paul Buckley Bennington, Vermont, U.S. Pressing Tony Blair I was pleased that columnist Joe Klein mentioned BBC interviewer Jeremy Paxman in his article on Tony Blair's election campaign [May 2]. Paxman's pointed questioning of Blair about the Iraq war is exactly the kind of journalism that politicians hate: relentless pressure for direct answers. Over the years several interviewees have actually walked out of on-air sessions because of Paxman's rigorous approach - the kind of tough-style journalism that the U.S. media need to adopt. They are far too deferential to U.S. politicians and let them get away...
...young children, all of us were free-minded...[but] I hate myself for hiding my life as I grow up,” McGleughlin said...