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...father, who had parked in the street, walking up the driveway with a bounce in his step, carrying Christmas gifts he had bought that afternoon. There was also a bouquet of red roses for his wife in the car. Expecting him, Phyllis had displayed his new blue sheriff's uniform in the den. Derwin had designed it himself, with gold stars and braid, and he had been anxious for the tailor to finish it. His good friend and confidant Robert Crowder had brought it to the house. Friends and family had been watching TV, talking about the trip to Helen...
...protest and therapy movements, that everyone has dignity, that positive self-image is the key to success, happiness and perhaps world peace. Rude Boy culture has a determined self-loathing streak. Jackass's jokes are sometimes directed at others, obnoxiously, ingeniously or both (a guy in a football uniform runs through a fast-food drive-thru lane, "intercepts" somebody's bagged meal, spikes it and does an end-zone dance). But besides the self-effacing title, the show is at heart about self-flagellation. When Knoxville becomes a human "poo cocktail" in the inverted portable toilet, the joke is that...
...uniform have another reason not to go along with the U.S. in its war on terrorism. In 1999, responding to the Indonesian military's brutality in East Timor, the U.S. Congress passed a law that banned U.S. training and education for Indonesian soldiers, which officials complain has hamstrung the military's ability to service its fleet of U.S.-made warplanes...
Instead, D'Alessandro says she wants to ensure uniform education programs in ninth and possibly tenth grade and then actively promote genuine differences among the schools in eleventh and twelfth grade. One school would be devoted to vocational classes, for example, and another would focus on more traditional education...
...Peljto can do much better in a Harvard uniform. The potential is there. She is, after all, a former Minnesota player of the year who led her high school team to a state championship with 34 points on two sprained ankles...