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...goals and extra points, or to the punter, some 15 yards behind his butt. "It's just not a natural motion to be upside down throwing a ball between your legs," explains Mannelly on the rigors of his job - a rather lucrative one, by the way (a nine-year vet, Mannelly makes over $700,000 per year...
...story is told by one of four protagonists who live in the Russian wilderness. A Chechnya vet, he is now a sniper guard for the local nuclear plant. His job is to shoot first. His friends Hotdog and Pepsi, parking-lot attendants, make their living stealing gas from cars. Natasha has slept with two of the three and now runs an international Internet mail-order bride service called Amour Transit, patronized by the fsb (former kgb) and foreign-intelligence services. It's an empty existence of anger and boredom punctuated only by what's on television that night. "Those...
JOHN KERRY doesn't want you to get stuck in Iraq. I mean, get us stuck in Iraq! The vet botched his anti-Bush punch line, making it sound antimilitary. Kids, if you can't tell a joke right, especially during elections, don't tell...
...much time to his care, she knew she would have to find other ways to keep busy. She has become part of a group of women who have lost their spouses and lend support to one another when someone needs a little extra TLC. Because James was a disabled vet, Driver has also become a member of the Disabled Veterans Auxiliary. The other activities that fill her datebook include serving on the board of the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, teaching cooking to young children at a group home and taking courses at the community college near her home...
...better teachers requires shifting the discussion within any given hiring decision. But addressing a lack of diversity in academic specialties requires presidential intervention earlier in the hiring process. Harvard’s system of selecting tenure candidates, which relies heavily on current faculty to search for and vet scholars, tends to generate candidates in the same fields and subfields as the professors themselves. This problem is quite insidious because the quality of Harvard’s hires masks the underlying problem...