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Among the guards is Sergeant P., who, like almost everyone else at Camp Delta who has contact with the detainees, covers the name on his uniform with duct tape so the prisoners can't identify him now or ever. Sergeant P. did not even want his full last name used in this story. A middle-school teacher in his nondeployed life, he, along with some of the other guards, was handpicked because of his experience with juveniles. "We do a lot of math and science with them," he says. "We don't try to indoctrinate them in Americanism." The juveniles...
...John Wong is eager to begin his working life. First, however, the newly minted university graduate must spend another 18 months in a military uniform. Like all males in Taiwan over the age of 18, he's required by law to do national service. After three months of boot camp, there's a good chance he'll be sent to one of Taiwan's heavily fortified outlying islands, located just kilometers off the coast of mainland China. He doesn't relish the prospect. "You just do drills and sit in bunkers, day after day," he sighs. "I'll be miserable...
Gumboots, an African dance group that performs resistance dances, helped rouse the crowd out of its silence with slaps, periodic “ohs,” high kicks and stomping—all in their uniform black rain boots...
...issue of HIV/AIDS—or at least that seems to be the opinion of the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC). In case you haven’t seen the HAC’s newest posters, they depict President George W. Bush in a fireman’s uniform, holding a severed hose in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other. The posters, which advertise today’s Science Center rally marking World AIDS Day, identify Bush as “Africa Action’s Most Wanted...For Fueling the Fire of AIDS...
Guilty by Design? What happens when a respected brand falls in with the wrong crowd? In the case of British luxury-goods label Burberry, it gets shown the door. Recently, bands of soccer hooligans have adopted the firm's trademark beige plaid as an informal uniform. Some establishments assume anyone wearing the tartan has a checkered past...