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...arms and says, "Me, mayor of this great city? I can't believe I am standing here." Villaraigosa is poised to become the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since 1872. Made of equal parts passion and personal charm, he acted during the campaign as if he wanted to shake hands with every one of the city's 4 million citizens. He could not be more different from the man he trounced (59% to 41%), incumbent James Hahn, 54, whose low-key, uncharismatic approach to the mayor's office proved a fatal flaw in an election between two Democrats that...
...pair of infantry-bound cadets swig beer and shake off their doubts. What, after all, could be tougher than West Point, where failure to have your books arranged by descending height on your desk can earn you hours of forced marching in the rain? "That's how they get us fired up for Iraq," says one. "After four years here, anything's better." Another suspects that for all the training, they still don't know what they are in for. "West Point is an academic institution, not a training ground," he says. "I think a lot of us are going...
...distributors and advertisers it is wooing, but al-Jazeera is clearly aiming high. "We think it is a fairly tired old industry," Parsons, 53, the son of a British army officer once stationed in the Middle East, says with a mildly cocky air. "We are quite happy to shake...
...hundred men through the bloody strike on Karbala before teaching infantry tactics, and the importance of constant, fierce adherence to Army standards, to West Point cadets. Major Jason Amerine, a Special Forces officer who fought alongside now-President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan, uses his international relations class to shake his cadets out of any comfortable misconceptions about the U.S. Army and how it's viewed abroad. Conventional wisdom says that American teenagers are unshakably obsessed with instant celebrity, pimped rides and video games. But West Point kids-valedictorians, football captains, National Merit Scholars-defy those stereotypes. They choose instead four...
Harvard, which had yet to see contact with a crew in the final 500 meters, could not shake the Tigers as the boats prepared for the final sprint. Princeton’s final sprint made the finish the tightest the Crimson had seen since last year’s dual victory over the Tigers...