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Essentially, however, it's business as usual in Starship Troopers. Basic training is still brutal. The platoon we follow from the first day of enlistment to battlefield apotheosis contains many familiar types--supermacho drill sergeant, dopey yokel and, at its center, Johnny (Casper Van Dien, a newcomer with a useful, uncanny resemblance to the old B-picture star John Agar), who is the traditional spoiled and aimless kid. He has--need one say?--joined up for the wrong, selfish reasons, but when his hometown is destroyed, Pearl Harbor-style, he embraces the right, vengeful-idealistic rationales for merciless slaughter...
Patrol officers Robert Sweetland, David Lee and Louis Savreau and Sergeant James McCarthy were also dispatched to the area, McNamara said...
...anything were to go beyond that, the Cambridge Police Department [CPD] would be prepared," said Lester J. Sullivan, a department sergeant...
...pilots themselves, which shifts the liability to the owner and cuts insurance and labor costs sharply. As a result, these flying machines cost from a few thousand dollars to $30,000, in contrast to $100,000 or more for a conventional aircraft. "Before these planes came along," says police sergeant Bruce Talbot, who built and operates his Long-EZ in Bolingbrook, Ill., "flying meant you had to be a rich...
...used to have something to brag about at the coffee shop if you caught someone going 100, but now you see it every day," says Sergeant Larry Strickland, who pulled a guy over at 105 only to hear him gripe, "No way, officer. I was only doing 96." The problem with "reasonable and prudent," troopers argue, is that there aren't three fuzzier words in U.S. lawbooks...