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Menino’s primary contention with the results of the study was that “the presentation of the survey’s polling data... suggests that opinions on race relations are uniform throughout such a large region, including seven eastern Massachussetts counties...
...Crimson’s regatta-winning ways were not uniform, however, as its top No. 8 co-ed upperclassmen finished fourth in the Thompson Trophy, a fleet-racing intersectional at Connecticut College. As 18 teams sailed 17 races, Harvard finished fourth—though only two points out of third place and 15 out of second—by the score of its B-division...
...went back and looked at World War II. We had a population of about 140 million people in this country and we put almost 9% of that population into uniform. Today we have twice the population and we're trying to put about four-tenths of one percent of it into uniform. And we're facing a national security situation that is at least as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than we faced in World War II. This nation is who I'm concerned about. It's not an Army problem to recruit. It's a national challenge...
...meant to protect a man's skull against sword and club. But was ever a martial object more drenched in symbolic fancy? The helmet had to convey no meaning to the warlord's troops except its own singularity. It was the exact reverse of a "uniform"; it was a portable spectacle. Its shape was not determined by the kind of functional rules that governed the making of a samurai's main emblem, the katana or long sword, whose basic form was fixed by the 13th century and did not alter much in the next 600 years. Instead, the helmet...
...family had ever been in the Defence Force, and I have to admit that in my first couple of years there I still didn't feel much emotional connection to Anzac Day. It was a day of getting up at 4.30 a.m., making sure my uniform was ironed properly and getting to the service on time. That changed one year when I was in New Zealand for officer training, and our warrant officer told us to meet half an hour earlier on Anzac Day for our own service. There were just six of us Australians, all about...