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That preference for the arriviste should not be surprising, for Margaret Thatcher is an exemplar of the new Tory. From her earliest days in Grantham, where she and her family lived above her father's grocery store, she seems to have been infused with a Girl Scout Handbook of virtues. "I'm a born hard worker," she told a reporter. "I watched my mother work like a Trojan in the shop and house." She sometimes repeats one of her grandmother's favorite homilies: "If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing well...
This trial was the third to come out of the May 11, 2007, shooting death of Genei Nesir Khudair Al-Janabil. The incident took place when an elite sniper-scout squad's mission went wrong near the city of Iskandariyah, which is 30 miles south of Baghdad. In separate courts-martial late last year, Sgt. Michael Hensley (who was the squad's leader) and another soldier, Pvt. Jorge Sandoval, were acquitted of murder charges. They were convicted of planting evidence...
Part of an elite parachute infantry sniper-scout platoon, Sgt. Evan Vela is accused of murdering an unarmed Iraqi that his five-man squad had taken captive after the man breached their hideout. The squad was conducting a mission on May 11 last year near the city of Iskandariyah, which is 30 miles south of Baghdad and the southern-most point of Iraq's infamous "Triangle of Death." Vela is also accused of helping to plant an AK-47 on the body to make the kill look more justified. If found guilty of murder, he faces a maximum sentence...
...gained experience in the Southern Alps, you were part of a group of talented New Zealand climbers including your friend George Lowe, you had joined these British expeditioners and, at 31, off you went to scout Everest? I was involved in two [Himalayan] expeditions in 1951, and then another one 1952, before doing the top of Everest. I remember in 1951 we got to Australia to head for the Himalayas and we were interviewed by a large number of press people in Sydney. When we told them we weren't going to climb Mt. Everest they completely lost interest...
...should not resort to violence even if we have differences.' MAUMOON GAYOOM, President of the Maldives, after an attempt to assassinate him was foiled when a boy scout waiting to greet the island nation's leader grabbed the attacker's knife as he lunged out of a crowd...