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Some reasons for the big veteran drive extend beyond mere patriotism. George Lakoff, a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has been advising Democrats, suggests that voters often see their party in the style of a "nurturing parent" but, in a post--Sept. 11 world, prefer the "strict father" governance embraced by Republicans. In less Freudian terms, Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, who runs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says "the military and these other institutions are greatly respected." Hence the Democrats' netting a former CIA officer in Illinois and a former FBI agent in Minnesota, whistle-blower Coleen...
RELIEVED. KEVIN BYRNES, 55, four-star general and decorated Vietnam veteran; of his command as head of Army training, following an investigation into his alleged adulterous affair with a civilian; in Fort Monroe, Va. In a rare removal of such a senior officer, the Army booted Byrnes three months before he was set to retire after 36 years of service...
...embarrassing amounts of money that we’ve burned through at school in Cambridge should and must lead us, in the eyes of outsiders, to professional bliss, and this entitlement paralyzes us. It paralyzed me as well, until I attended a conference three weeks ago. There, a veteran of the Green Berets told my peers and me to plan to be unhappy. He said that if we had too much vested in the ideal of being happy post-college, we would only be more likely to fool ourselves into being happy instead of continually exerting ourselves to find...
...questions,' Sivacek says, adding she'd been concerned about the war even before her husband was posted to Iraq. "(War) is just too much for any person," she says. In addition to the pressure of raising a disabled child, Sivacek says her uncle, a Vietnam veteran, had committed suicide in June of this year, compounding her fears about America's fighting forces and military spouses...
...detonate explosives outside the jammers' reach. The rebels are increasing payloads in car bombs to as much as 1,000 lbs. and armoring their vehicles so that soldiers at checkpoints can't stop them with small-arms fire. The enemy is, in the words of a recently returned Iraq veteran, disciplined, professional and constantly evolving...