Word: uniform
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...plays on TV. "I've never had much interest in being liked," he offers. "And I think people like that. It's a relief. So many people want to be liked." Sitting on a large green sofa in his living room, dressed in the professional funny person's uniform of jeans, sneakers, T shirt (and optional Oxford shirt, unbuttoned), surrounded by exactly the kind of stuff a Long Island high school kid from the '60s might buy if he grew up to be a multimillionaire--car models, superhero models, Mets memorabilia, a mint-condition Schwinn Sting-Ray--Seinfeld comes across...
...Capitol Hill will use the study as a lever to push for legislation banning mixed-gender basic training altogether. In what may be an analogous situation, the Administration lost control of a military issue when its unilateral effort to allow openly gay men and women to serve in uniform created a fire storm of opposition in Congress. The result, on that occasion, was a law barring active homosexuals from serving in the military. What had once been a presidential prerogative--requiring only the Commander in Chief's decision--had become the law of the land, virtually impervious to change. Another...
...seven decades, TIME's Men and Women of the Year have included the despicable (Adolf Hitler in 1938), the majestic (Queen Elizabeth II in 1952), the visionary (Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963) and the revolutionary (Lech Walesa in 1981). There has been the man in uniform (G.I. Joe in 1950), the younger generation (1966) and an entire gender (American women, 1975). The computer beat out flesh and blood in 1982. And the earth itself became the biggest newsmaker in 1988. But more often than not, it is a single individual who best expresses the sweep of history...
...WORTHY OF A UNIFORM...
Brent Sadler's report on Iraqi commandos training outside Baghdad told of frenzied recruits disemboweling a dog and pulling apart live rabbits. Such acts of cruelty and torture serve only to dehumanize these soldiers, not turn them into gallant men worthy of a military uniform. I served in Vietnam and saw the best of soldiers, both American and Viet Cong. There were honorable men there, not rabble. How can Iraq countenance such barbarism? RICHARD PAUL CLEMENCEAU New York City...