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...Postal Service employee (in full uniform) was exiting the shooting range and heading for his car, a sight which led to an enduring “going postal” joke. More fearful of the other clients than the weapons themselves, I entered Wolf’s to be engulfed by the din of shots being fired. Working behind the counter was a pudgy 16-year-old who was in the middle of the process of instructing some other clients on how to handle an Uzi. As I looked around, I saw every gun imaginable. From the Dirty Harry revolver...
...People want to see police in uniform and on the streets," she said...
...antiglobalists prove that you don't have to agree on what you're for to know what you're against. And one thing they're against, it seems, is agreement itself. Too monolithic, too uniform, too global. The protesters prefer debate, diversity. They'd like to teach the world to sing in off-key counterpoint. To their minds, the IMF and the World Bank are tyrannical choirmasters with steel batons and a tin ear for cultural differences. They finance mammoth industrial projects that sweep up hundreds of workers from the countryside, decimating small farms and villages while swelling urban slums...
...friend of his youngest sister, looking for a way - any way - to leave her small village in Greece. Nick was the 37-year-old man who, more than 15 years, before had left his house, less than a mile from her own, in a crisp, clean, official military uniform. She grew up hearing stories about George and Marika's son, the boy who completed his mandatory two years of service and then left Greece to join his older brother in America. There, he moved to Chicago's Greektown, worked at a variety of odd jobs, and years later, with middle...
...help when, in January, Juan Miguel saw the TV pictures of Elian, dressed in a crisp new school uniform, heading off to a private school run by a Cuban-American political leader. Cuban psychiatrists had advised the father to tell Elian during their regular phone calls that the boy was "on vacation" and that they would be reunited soon. But starting a new school put a lie to that promise, and the family seemed determined to drag the case through the courts. Juan Miguel pleaded with INS officials to speed up the process, and they complied--worried that with each...