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...Fall in! Right face! Forward march!” they shout. “Left, left, left right left.” The cadets march in single file. The cadets strike up cadences to time their march, reminiscent of summer camp, but with a definite army twist. “Oh my buddy’s in a foxhole / a bullet in his head. / Our leader says he’s wounded / but I know that he is dead,” they sing. Only during the cadences does Waterman feel out of place. Her voice, much higher than...
...never a mystery. The racist violence of those years was meant to intimidate the African Americans who met in the churches, and you didn't need a guilty perpetrator, or even a suspect, to know that. Forty years later, after a new wave of church fires in Alabama, a twist ending to the story has residents stunned and confused...
...some more stuff and then come back, again and again. At a recent meeting with Ikea executives from Sweden, I was surprised to learn that consumers of the brand's small-office products like to hold impromptu meetings in the store displays. Every day seems to bring a new twist on the fundamental habit of consumption: there are pop-up stores, mobile stores, automated stores and, of course, the Internet. In Japan young women buy everything from subway passes to mascara with a swipe of their cell phones...
...skis. A Junior Olympian. An All-American.“I really believe that if Morgan wasn’t here playing baseball,” says Joe Walsh, his Harvard coach, “he’d be in Torino.” It was an awkward twist, this, his new fitness agenda, driving nails. As fate would have it for the surehanded All-Ivy shortstop, so was the accident that led him there.“You think a ball hits you in the nose, that’s enough pain right there,” Walsh...
...Sound like an old-fashioned finishing school? It is, with one twist: the pupils are all men. Image consultant Mather and recruitment specialist Penny Edge tutor men, who range in age from 19 to 50, in modern manners at Britain's first male finishing school, founded in October 2005. "In these days of equality, what's good for women is good for men," says Mather, co-founder of the successful Finishing Academy for ladies in Cheshire. The gentlemen apparently agree. Mather has bookings for the men's academy through January 2007, and is considering setting up shop in North America...