Word: vet
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...something you live with. One way to deal with the pain and guilt is you find a place of sanctuary where people won't condemn you. I created such a place because so many veterans came back from Vietnam who had these kinds of problems. I created the Vet Center program. There were 15 centers in 1980; now there are about 200. So there are hundreds of thousands of Bob Kerreys out there just from Vietnam, not to mention Desert Storm or Somalia. Don't blame them for fighting for their lives...
This year may be criti-cal. With two Japanese playing for the Seattle Mariners - Ichiro and vet-eran star reliever Kazuhiro Sasaki - Japan's pub-lic broadcasting company, nhk, may set a record for the most televised U.S. major league games in a single year. Says veteran sportswriter Kozo Abe, who has covered baseball on both sides of the Pacific: "The Japanese are finally beginning to realize how much better American big league baseball is - in real competition, that is, not goodwill games - in terms of power, speed, technique and depth. That could spell doom for Japan's game...
...with button eyes, get into adventures by innocently imitating the adult world. The stories read like original Grimm's fairy tales - the ones where Cinderella's stepsisters hack away at their feet with an ax so they will fit the glass slipper. They have a romantic, quaint naïveté mixed with moments of modern existential horror...
...BLUE] Anthony Principi SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS A Vietnam vet and acting VA Secretary in the first Bush Administration, Principi wants to strengthen veterans' benefits...
...Interior secretary, essentially the nation's park steward and the person who'll have a lot to say about where the derricks go, it's Gale Norton, who served as Colorado's attorney general for eight years and is an Interior and Agriculture vet from earlier GOP administrations. That's she's from one of those red states out in the untamed west is no surprise; that she's not Slade Gorton, the departing senator from Microsoftland who has made more enemies among American Indians than Bruce Babbit ever dreamed of, should reduce the controversy factor considerably. Very Bush...