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...with unassimilated ideas, was rejected by the Austrian army as "unfit for combatant and auxiliary duties, too weak. Unable to bear arms." The Bavarian military had no such reservations. At the beginning of World War I, he was issued a uniform and sent to the front. Even there the trooper was set apart. He received no mail, shared no confidences, had no girlfriend. A fellow enlistee remembered "this white crow among us that didn't go along with us when we damned the war to hell." In France the white crow distinguished himself under fire. Thanks to the initiative...
...save his family and Congress, he was actually getting out to save his neck. The $100,000 deal involving one of Michael Milken's junk bonds promised to be every bit as serious as Wright's transgressions. And the investigations have the same salutary effect as the state trooper's pulling over a speeder: everyone slows down for a while...
Parr said she planned to call as witnesses the grandson, now age seven; the granddaughter, now age four; one or both parents; a therapist; a psychologist and a state trooper involved in the investigation...
...real trooper," Rival said. "I didn't think that she was going to make it. We showed the Ivies what we can do and that was short-handed. We all pulled together and everybody played well...
...less soldier on active duty these days. A federal judge in Newark last week sentenced Yu Kikumura, 36, to 30 years in prison for possession of three pipe bombs and a false passport. A Japanese national, Kikumura was arrested last April on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper, who says he saw the bombs in the back seat of his car. Prosecutors believe he intended to plant them in the New York City area in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya. U.S. District Judge Alfred J. Lechner Jr. said the bombs, packed with black powder...