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...just moved from the hills of upstate Mississippi to the shipyard town of Pascagoula, so Lott entered the seventh grade as a stranger. He was too slight for such sports as football, so he played tuba in the band. And he had such a space between his front teeth that he was nicknamed...
Ever since, even after he got his teeth fixed, Lott has advanced himself by assembling such snaggletoothed majorities. As the House Republican whip, or chief vote counter, during the early 1980s, Lott helped forge alliances with both the Boll Weevil Democrats, who were ignored by their party's liberal leaders, and with Newt Gingrich's angry band of G.O.P. radicals, who paid their party's elders as much deference as would Hell's Angels swaggering into a bar full of Shriners. Lott won the trust of both sides and remained the Happy Warrior: backslapping and optimistic, the bass...
...never heard before, torn from my father's mouth. Then silence. My mother had been sewing a button on my shirt. She kept her buttons in a chipped saucer. I heard the rim of the saucer in circles on the floor. I heard the spray of buttons, little white teeth...
...attacks and destroys neurons in the brain, causing such symptoms as loss of reasoning and memory, triggering the inability to perform simple tasks such as brushing teeth or fixing meals...
...every other branch of the military--and many military-training schools--has disciplined personnel for hazing. As Shalikashvili put it last week, "We are always going to try to fix human behavior, but we are not always going to have 100% success." But if the leadership does not put teeth into its zero-tolerance policy, "the few and the proud" will have little to be proud...