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...Pacino, whose bizarre Scots-Bronx accent sticks in the ear like a nettle) goes to war, quits and goes again. The patrician Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski) rebels against her snooty mother and sisters to become a kind of Cenderella Liberty, cheerleading Tom to cream those Brits. So does Annie Lennox, of the pop duo Eurythmics, whose charisma is edited out of this chaotic 2-hr. 4-min. mess...
...arts menu would be more to their taste. The plebes going through Beast in the summer of 2001 were tough: only 41 members quit, the second lowest dropout level in 15 years. They would need to be, since the new superintendent who took command that July, Lieut. General William Lennox, was looking to sharpen the standards. "We had to tighten things up a bit," he says, "give more of the sense of what life is like in the Army." The changes were necessary because sometimes "you can lose focus when...
Just after Sept. 11, Lennox was walking around the post with his command sergeant when a cadet approached him. The cadet told the general that he wanted to leave, enlist, get out there in the fight. The instinct made Lennox proud, but as more and more reports surfaced of students wanting to quit so they could be deployed right away, Lennox grew concerned. At dinner on Sept. 13, he stood looking out over the entire corps from the balcony high above the mess hall and delivered his message. "I preached tactical patience," he says. "I told them that they...
...challenge of West Point faced a test of their own when it became clear that in this war and in wars to come, there was no safe specialty, no escape from the dangers of combat. "Ten years ago, parents were pushing their cadets to come here," Lieut. General Lennox observes. "Now it's the other way around: a cadet is pushing his own parents into accepting the fact that he wants to go to West Point...
...four-piece from Baltimore, Maryland all went to high school together and are now based out of New York. Each member has a different persona: Noah Lennox is “Panda Bear” and has his own side project on Animal Collective’s label, David Portner plays the role of “Avey Tare,” Brian Weitz, who wears a miner’s light over the effects box and minidisc players he operates, is “The Geologist,” and Conrad Deaken is (somewhat less creatively...