Word: marshals
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...ourselves we find distinctive. We fear so passionately that somebody might have everything—brains, looks, social connections, a sense of humor—that we tear down and pick apart. Nobody should have a beach house in Antigua and a summa thesis. Nobody should be a Class Marshal and a Rhodes Scholar. The person who got that job at Morgan Stanley is a “moron.” Our friend working for his senator is an “alcoholic...
...sophomore year, and his results speak to the capabilities he would bring to the UC presidency. Many students are familiar with his efforts last year to bring better cell-phone reception to the Quad—an initiative that required Hayward to reach out to student groups and marshal student concerns into a campaign that produced tangible, immediate results...
...first press conference since his re-election was confirmed, he said, "We will strive, by any means possible, to eradicate this stain." But while his speech was big on promises, many Afghans fear little will change. As Karzai spoke, he was flanked by his new Vice President, Marshal Fahim, a warlord accused of several human-rights violations and whose selection by Karzai as a running mate caused consternation in the West. Just a few hours earlier, Abdul Rashid Dostum, another notorious warlord who had been temporarily exiled from Afghanistan for egregious acts of defiance against the government, returned in triumph...
...Like the U.S. mission, the Red Army lacked sufficient troops in Afghanistan to control the countryside. "After seven years in Afghanistan, there is not one square kilometer left untouched by a boot of a Soviet soldier," Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the top Soviet military officer, said in November 1986. "But as soon as they leave a place, the enemy returns and restores it all back the way it used to be." (McChrystal's take: "The insurgents control or contest a significant portion of the country, although it is difficult to assess precisely how much due to a lack...
Still, last week's decision has prompted head-scratching by political observers, even those with ties to the Republican Party. The commission's final report on the Willingham case would not have been issued until late spring or summer of 2010, after the State Fire Marshal's Office would have responded to Beyler's report. The political reality is that the death penalty is unlikely to be an issue in the March Republican primary, says Bill Miller, an Austin political consultant, and it has never had much traction in fall contests, given the wide support for the penalty among both...