Word: ranks
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...military, but all citizens. Meanwhile, reports circulated that the U.S. was offering big cash for Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his cronies to simply leave the country. The State Department would neither confirm nor deny the rumors, but they clearly were sowing seeds of doubt among the military rank and file about whether their officers would still be around if and when U.S. troops invade...
Just two years ago, the team experienced what might rank as its greatest season ever. It went 13-3-2, breezed to the league title and basically established the Crimson as a legitimate contender in national field hockey circles. Coming after a 10-6-0 season in 1989 and an 11-5-1 mark in 1990, the program seemed to be on an irrepressible upswing, bound for continued excellence in the future...
General Robert C. Davenport '44 joined the Enlisted Reserve Corps at Harvard in June 1942. Thirteen months later he went on active duty in the Army. In 1986, he retired with the rank of major general...
...Cannes Film Festival proceeded as sedately as a Riviera quilting bee. Nice little films from odd little countries made some brief impression on the 30,000 assembled producers, distributors and journalists, only to be filed away and forgotten. Celebrities of the high second rank -- France's Isabelle Adjani, Britain's Terence Stamp, China's Gong Li -- stopped by to promote their films and to underline, by their presence, the absence of any world- class megastars except for Clint Eastwood, who was serving as president of this year's festival jury. Even the weather, which brings more folks to this Cote...
Brown could win a majority for confirmation if not for a Republican filibuster, which requires 60 votes to break. Last week cloture failed 56 to 42. The President has the option of sending Brown to the CSCE without ambassadorial rank, but that would hurt American credibility. So another vote will be taken after the Memorial Day recess. In the meantime, an aide to Senator Brown called the Browns' old phone number the day after the vote and happened to get Brown's wife, who was moving a few last boxes. She stood in her kitchen, now gutted...