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...effort to defeat Republican incumbents in congressional elections next year, the Democrats have come up with a simple strategy in their quest for candidates: men in uniform. Granted, John Kerry's line about "reporting for duty" didn't go over too well in the last election. But this go-round, the Dems are recruiting newly minted veterans from Iraq and the war on terrorism. One of them, Marine reservist Paul Hackett, became something of a hero this month when he nearly won a seat in a heavily G.O.P. district in Ohio, in a special election closely watched by both parties...
Some requirements for cheerleaders haven't changed. They are still expected to be well-turned-out fashion plates, hair pulled into a tight ponytail, uniform just so. Tans--from a bottle or a tanning salon--are a must. "The girls have to be picture perfect," says Euless cheer sponsor Kelli McDaniel. Monica's mom Daphne Brigham keeps a sharp eye on her daughter at the S.M.U. camp, monitoring her for slips.--and, naturally, finds one. "Didn't we talk about this?" she asks Monica, pulling her aside for a wayward bra strap. "If your top is pink, your...
...call it a war, then you think of people in uniform as being the solution." RICHARD B. MYERS, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explaining why the Bush Administration is replacing the phrase "global war on terror" with "global struggle against violent extremism...
...United States." But anyone who knew him then would recognize the giant whiteboards he always kept handy for scrawling his inspirations on. Those much remarked-upon earth tones of his presidential campaign have been traded for the head-to-toe man-in-black look that passes for the uniform of the new media executive. But the Treo 650 still hangs at his belt in the fashion statement of the incorrigible techno-geek that he has always admitted to being...
Over the past year, a group of 16 doctors, nurses, administrators, and patients at Harvard-affiliated hospitals in the Boston area have developed what could become a uniform policy for the process of disclosing and apologizing for medical mistakes that occur in all Harvard-affiliated hospitals...