Word: serviceman
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...relished the celebrity and in fact was the focus of more attention at the air base than even Defense Secretary Cohen or Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh Shelton. "Thank you for making us proud of what we do," said a serviceman. But a more senior official, standing back in the crowd, gave a cautious critique: "We're being pressed to become the world's policeman, but we don't have the will or the military structure to do it right. Nor do we have a rational method of picking where we'll get involved. Give us a clear...
...bless us, a few sons of suburban soccer moms, and you've got a classic melting-pot, hyphenated-American squad. "I don't think about Germany as the country I grew up in, but as the team I want to beat," says Thomas Dooley, 37, son of an American serviceman and a German mother. Dooley now plays for the red, white and blue...
When Hedwig was still called Hansel, a sexually confused "girly boy" growing up in communist East Berlin, he used to listen to American rock 'n' roll in the only place he could find privacy: sticking his head in the family oven. Later an American serviceman arranged for a sex-change operation (a botched one, leaving just an "angry inch" of scar tissue) so the two could marry and emigrate to America. Hedwig wound up in a trailer park in Kansas, where her G.I. abandoned her. Then she met Tommy Gnosis, a rock singer whom she helped turn into a superstar...
...State Secret On the record, at last: the first named source to claim he saw the President and Monica Lewinsky alone has come forward, and he's a former secret serviceman. It could be the break Ken Starr has been waiting for. Full Story...
...real victim, the sort of person affirmative action should help." According to Smith, Hopwood, who comes from a blue-collar family, was offered a couple of partial scholarships--including one to Princeton--but still could not afford to go. Instead she attended California State University, married a serviceman, worked as an accountant and was raising a disabled child when she applied to the University of Texas law school at age 29. Her LSAT scores were good enough to qualify for the pool of minority and disadvantaged applicants. But, charges Smith, "they take the last 60 white kids and make places...