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...several months, in the words of a senior Army officer, "looking under rocks for every spare soldier" to send to Iraq. It took formal action last week to stretch its troop strength as far as possible. According to the so-called stop-loss order, soldiers will be kept in uniform for an extra three months before and after their units' one-year stint in Iraq or Afghanistan. By unilaterally extending their enlistments by as much as 18 months, the policy will force tens of thousands of soldiers to put personal plans on hold. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry calls...
...protested. "Gipp weighed five pounds less than I weigh right now." The producer was still dubious. The problem, Reagan saw, was that he was wearing a business suit, and the producer envisioned a behemoth in helmet and shoulder pads. Reagan raced home, gathered up some pictures of himself in uniform, raced back to the studio and won the part. It made him famous, and years after he performed Gipp's death scene, he would still get "a lump in my throat ... just thinking about...
Perhaps the last rookie to have such a huge impact on the diamond is Henry Rowengartner, the 12-year-old right-hander who fire-balled his way into a Cubs uniform and American hearts in the 1993 classic Rookie of the Year...
...oppose the program because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. And even these have been relatively minor incidents: disparaging comments from a knot of professors as he walked through the Yard in uniform, a debate with a teaching fellow in section...
Neither the anti-war feelings on campus nor his ROTC uniform have dissuaded Bosco from voicing his own opinions, shaped by a brand of conservatism that has left him at odds with liberals, as well as conservatives like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...