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...sometimes use broad strokes." He is being modest; at times his brush could paint Hollywood Boulevard in one swath. Known for his fierce preparation for a role, he lived in a car while playing the punk in Valley Girl, wore bandages off the set as a blind Vietnam vet in Birdy, videotaped himself drunk for Leaving Las Vegas. Some of his very early performances were mannerist bordering on the grotesque, and he was almost fired from Peggy Sue Got Married, Raising Arizona and Moonstruck. "I was learning to act publicly," he admits, "and sometimes I'd fall on my face...
...Atlantic Command (his main rival is the current Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman, Air Force General Joseph Ralston), would make him the first Marine to serve as the nation's top military officer and could spur serious change. The 6-ft. 2-in. Bostonian and decorated Vietnam vet has riled the Air Force by questioning costly new warplanes, unnerved the Navy by doubting the value of carriers and irked the Army by suggesting the mothballing of some tanks...
...quality). Harvard, the gold standard, last year admitted only 11% of applicants for this year's class; three-quarters of them decided to enroll. Penn's admit rate my freshman year was more than 50%, a figure Penn officials recall with about as much nostalgia as a Vietnam vet recalls the siege of Khe Sanh...
Five and a half years ago, as the American Legion first noticed an unusual pattern of illness among our Gulf War vets, we made an observation that Mark Thompson only mentioned in his article on Persian Gulf War syndrome [NATION, Dec. 23]. It was clear to us that a variety of factors had to be making our veterans ill. Not every sick vet was in the same place at the same time. In fact, significant numbers left the Middle East before the war started or arrived there some time after the fighting stopped...
...Harris, a Cambridge engineer, had a different take on yesterday's events. A Vietnam vet who survived contact with Agent Orange and Light Agent Purple, Harris did not even have the day off from work. He rightly says, "People don't have any touch with what day it is." Yesterday was a free Monday for most of us: free of classes, free of paper deadlines and free of regard for the military veterans who have served us so well in wars past and present...