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President George H.W. Bush awarded medals to Generals Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell - who also earned one from Clinton - Secretary of State James Baker, then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft in 1991. In a similar move, President George W. Bush gave the nod to Tommy Franks, the retired Army general who led the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions; former CIA Director George Tenet; and L. Paul Bremer, who oversaw reconstruction in Iraq. Bush said the three men had "played pivotal roles in great events" to make "our country more secure" - a sentiment that wasn't exactly...
...Pass intended for Nicolai "Stormin Norman" Schwarzkopf. Just sayin...
...solid farming stock, he was always more interested in fashion than in fertilizer. "I can't explain this. There was no one in my family like this. I have checked back several generations," he says. Sälzer's résumé includes four years with hair-care giant Schwarzkopf. "Hair care is very close to fashion," says Sälzer, the father of four sons. "For women, it is the only thing you can change. I would not say I was fashionable, but at Schwarzkopf, we worked a lot with Vivienne Westwood...
Hashem's motivation may have been to save the lives of his own troops, who stood little chance against U.S. military might. And it was not his first contact with the Americans. In 1991 he negotiated a cease-fire with General Norman Schwarzkopf at the end of the first Gulf War. (Schwarzkopf would later say he was "suckered" by Hashem, who persuaded him to permit Iraq the use of helicopters later deployed by Saddam to kill thousands of rebellious Shi'ites.) Hashem rose to chief of staff of the Iraqi army and then Defense Minister. He remained popular with...
...then there are players such as Nicolai Schwarzkopf, a combination tight end/defensive end from Decatur, Ga. According to ESPN.com, Schwarzkopf considered a number of schools, including Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt, before deciding to come to Cambridge...