Word: vet
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...Commish Tagliabue hangs up his spikes Roger Goodell, the National Football League's chief operating officer and a 24-year league vet, was elected to succeed commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who will retire before the season begins Sept...
...players appreciate the freedom. "There are no restraints on this team," notes Wade, another Athens vet who said then-U.S. coach Larry Brown discouraged him from scoring. "That was kind of our problem in '04 - one guy could do this, another guy couldn't." Krzyzewski's vibe has fired up the team; the practices are crisp and competitive. "I'd have our [NBA] team pay him a couple of grand to talk to us," says Brad Miller, a Team USA big man who plays for the Sacramento Kings. "The way he can connect with everybody, it's unbelievable...
President Bush watched Gonzalez, himself an immigrant Army vet, swear in the three new soldier-citizens last week. Specialist Sergio Lopez, originally from Mexico City, moved to Bolingbrook, Ill., in 1998, and joined the Army in 2003. "He put his life on the line each day driving between observation posts and his unit's forward operating base in the Baghdad area," Bush said at the ceremony. Ten days into his second tour of Iraq in January, Lopez, 24, lost both of his legs to a roadside bomb. "There's no better way to prove that you want...
...unfinished moral and psychological business. It is not so much a nasty secret as a subject that Americans agreed not to discuss for a time. Some 2.9 million Americans served in Indochina. The majority of them managed to put their lives together after the war ... But nearly 100,000 vets came back with severe physical disabilities: fast evacuation by helicopter and excellent medical care saved thousands of men-many without arms and legs-who might otherwise have died ... BUT THE REAL DEVILS OF THE WAR WORK IN THE MIND. Something like a quarter of those who served may still...
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS SARA GRUEN JACOB JANKOWSKI has never had fantasies about joining the circus. But when his parents die suddenly, he freaks out, drops out of vet school, hops a freight train and winds up tending to the menagerie of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a third-rate Depression-era traveling circus. What goes on under the big top is nothing compared with the show backstage. In a sawdust-and-tinsel novel reminiscent of Robertson Davies, Jacob nurses giraffes, bunks with a surly dwarf, falls in love with a sexy horsewoman, gets life lessons from...