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Although ROTC officials emphatically discount the importance of this military ritual, the cadets take it seriously. Besides planningthe marching moves each Flight will perform during drill, they are responsible for its scheduling and for making sure attendance is consistent. The mock squadron is staffed and consistent. The mock squadron is staffed and led by a hierarchy of juniors and seniors who have been promoted to ranks that correspond to actual Air Force positions. "It's true that an active duty officer will rarely have to drill," says Bryon Fortson, a cadet corps commander and MIT senior. "But here...
...achieve that result, however, the city annually puts up with the tedious ritual of counting votes according to the PR scheme. It takes a week or more, and to pass this time of political anxiety more easily, city pols annually turn the tabulation process at the Longfellow School into something of a social event...
...than Britain is, while Louisiana, like Quebec, hearkens back to an earlier and in many ways more pleasant France. No Englishman could show more excitement over a cricket match than the average sports-loving American, and last week's beginning of the World Cricket Series was a national ritual for most Americans. Louisiana, in turn, has retained that raffish, somewhat off-center charm we associate with all things French: good food, good conversation and a fine contempt for conventional morals. It has also retained some unfortunate reminders of its frontier heritage. Unlike America, where handguns are outlawed, Louisiana allows...
...Audley White, 52, watches the Today show, an American morning ritual. But with a difference: the youthful-looking information systems manager views the program on a convenient monitor while he pounds out the miles on a motorized treadmill at the Xerox Corporate Fitness Center in Stamford, Conn. On his daily jog, White is surrounded by a $61,000 mechanical sculpture garden of chrome, leather and cable: stationary bicycles, cross-country skiing simulators, rowing machines, Nautilus weight stations and racks of dumbbells positioned around the spacious, brown-carpeted gym. Down a hallway hung with modern paintings are whirlpool baths...
...that propells history itself. To film the chase across Corsica, he straps a camera to a horse's back, and keeps pace with the lead troops. Not one image is blurred or out of focus. Before the audience, the foremost rider's horse unfolds its limbs in the rhythmical ritual of a gallop. Its nostrils flair, its hind quarters fleck with sweat. The earh resounds under the pounding of great hoofs. For an instant, we forget the object of this chase, so intoxicated are we by the fluidity of the horse's movement...