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...rejoicing in a win for the Bruins in the Boston Garden, landed at my counter. As I took their order, I kept expecting someone to ask, "Aren't you Johnny Morris's brother? What are you doing here?" But no one did, and I learned that night that a uniform cap and jacket make you invisible...
...enormous symbolic power. Ann Lewis, like some other feminists, makes the Jackie Robinson analogy when she talks about a woman vice president. "If Branch Rickey had asked people whether to put a black on the field, would they have ever told him, 'Now'? Putting Jackie Robinson in a Dodgers uniform was good for the Dodgers, good for baseball and good for the country...
Feinstein has established a dress code for her senior staff that includes neckties for men and dresses or skirts for women; the police and fire chiefs must be in full uniform when they come to her office. The mayor asks a lot of her staff in other ways. Recalls former Press Secretary Mel Wax: "If a story the least bit critical of her appeared in the newspaper, she'd say, 'You should have done this, or you should have done that.' There's a lot of the schoolteacher about her. She's difficult...
...child under 18 on the streets of Moscow. All had been swept up for the greater image of Mother Russia. A phalanx of Soviet army soldiers, sitting so close that their shoulders brushed, filled the first row of seats at every Olympic event. A militiaman in gray uniform stood in the middle of every intersection in Moscow, even those miles from Olympic sites. That was the unobtrusive part of the security arrangements. Despite a thorough search in customs, despite the fact that accredited Olympic journalists are due many of the same waivers as athletes under I.O.C. rules, our luggage...
...security forces are more visible in the countryside, where, as in Metalio, they can brutalize an entire town. Rivas and his men allegedly don civilian clothes and masks before conducting a nighttime hit, while other times they show up at a house in broad daylight and full uniform to take someone away for "questioning." A favorite dumping ground is a shallow estuary near by, but sometimes the burial technique is grislier. Several heads were once discovered stuffed in cloth bags and neatly aligned in a field, while the bodies were scattered around the town. Rivas reportedly told one person...