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...They joined??the military into college, or out of the ghetto, or because of its seemingly studly glamour. "I saw a Marine when I was in high school," Sergeant Robert Sarra recalls in a new documentary. "And I was like, that's it! They're mean, they're 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Coming Home Isn't Easy | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...lets others move imaginatively in new directions, then defends and protects them. He does that, suggest some of his fellow Jesuits, because he looks to the victory of Resurrection where many others are able to see only the defeat of Golgotha. In Christian life, however, the two are inextricably joined???and in few places more than in the Society of Jesus. As long as he is the Jesuit general, Pedro Arrupe will likely have no real rest: he will be defending and protecting the troubled and sometimes troublesome sons of Ignatius long into tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...used it: all military supplies to both countries were suspended. Pakistan would be the first to feel the pinch since it is wholly dependent on U.S. spare parts and, unlike India, has no real industrial base for home production of arms. Eventually, the U.S. arms cutoff?in which Britain joined???could ground both sides' jet planes and halt their tanks, reducing the whole affair to an infantry war?but not before weeks have passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Ending the Suspense | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

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