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...Salman Dhahir was wearing his new uniform the morning he was shot in front of his 15-year-old daughter. At 7:45 a.m. on Nov. 11, Dhahir, a Baghdad police officer, dropped Diana off at her high school. Sitting in one of his unit's blue-and-white Nissan pickups, he watched as she walked toward class to make sure she got inside safely. Suddenly a submachine gun fitted with a silencer opened fire from across the street. Glass shattered as the windshield became a web of cracks. Dhahir's driver took a bullet in the head and another...
Dhahir believes that he and his fellow officers will rise to the challenge. The 25-year veteran of the force hopes the sense of pride and self-sacrifice he once associated with a policeman's uniform will return. "When we were young," he says, "we saw the police as a force to serve the people." His wife and three teenage daughters may pray for his safety, but they are proud of what Dhahir does, and every morning as he leaves for work, they hold back their admonishments. "They just wish me luck," he says...
Altman was originally recruited by Harvard, but chose instead to attend Holy Cross. When she resolved to transfer, Delaney-Smith tried to get her into a Crimson uniform, but the admissions office decided otherwise...
BUSH'S DAYS IN UNIFORM: The White House has released records to prove Bush completed his National Guard duty. But mysteries remain...
DIED. JOHN STEPHEN, 69, Glasgow-born clothing designer known as "the King of Carnaby Street" in Swinging '60s London; in London. His hip-hugging pants and velvet jackets challenged the postwar uniform of white shirts and gray flannel suits and became the threads of choice for the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who. Stephen--a classic dresser himself--opened his first Carnaby Street shop, at No. 5, in 1957, and by the mid-'60s, his mod designs were being sold across...