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...high heels—and back to boots again. These women still want to be part of the band of brothers. THE SERGEANT MAJOROn an outdoor track at MIT, the ROTC students, called cadets, stand in a four-row formation. Everyone is dressed identically—camouflage pants, camouflage jackets. One cadet comes forward to start physical training. This is the sergeant major, a senior responsible for the smooth functioning of the whole Paul Revere battalion—about 50 students in all, drawn from seven colleges in the Boston area. “Battalion, attention...
...tired of being at school,” says Ryan A. Delany ’08. “It was a chance to play G. I. Joe for a couple of years.” Delany, in a Superman T-shirt, aviator sunglasses, leather jacket, and heavy black boots, looks the part of soldier/badass. But this tough-guy persona is no act. Having graduated high school in 1999, Delany joined the Marines, pushing college aside. “I needed a chance to grow up,” Delany says. The unenthusiastic student proved to be a much more...
...entryway, was in the shower when the fire alarm went off. “The fire wasn’t too big, but you could smell the smoke on the fourth floor,” she said as she stood outside with a bathrobe under her jacket. “You could smell it through the fireplace.” Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Sergeant Robert Cooper, who was at the scene, said that HUPD responds any time a fire alarm is set off. “You could see it burning,” he said...
...District, a rural conservative bastion considered "safe" for Republicans. The candidate, Chris Carney, is soft-spoken and well informed. The audience is enthusiastic and predominantly Democratic, but peppered with Republicans who seem every bit as angry about the Bush Administration as do the Democrats. One man, dressed in a jacket and tie, stands up and confesses he's a lifelong Republican who can't vote for Bush because of his "fiscal irresponsibility." Another Republican, a prohibitively large corrections officer named Gary Morgan, tells me he's disgusted by the way Bush has prosecuted the war in Iraq...
...will never, ever wear out," says Alessandro Corso, who grew up in a family of tailors. His colleague Simone Lovino is busy pressing a suit for a client who has returned it because the collar is riding up. "The collar is perfect. He doesn't need a new jacket; he needs a new dry cleaner," he says. Both men completed the four-year training course at Brioni's tailoring school and were tapped for an extra year to qualify them as master tailors. They say they can spot a Brioni suit at a distance because of the shape...