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...didn’t really put a lot of thought into what I was going to do,” he says. Despite the fact that firefighting had given his cousin a broken back and his uncle waist-down paralysis, Brogan boarded a flight back to Cambridge...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting Fired Up Not for Faint of Hose | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

...burst of madness, an alumnus sprang onto the field at half time. The Irish were leading Michigan State by the unsatisfactory score of 11-0. "You're going to have to show more imagination than running off tackle," he collared and admonished Faust, who gathered him around the waist and said, "Come with me. It's O.K., come with me. I'd like you to talk to the team at half time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shaking Free of the Thunder | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Head on from the wave tops, it rises like a sleek steel Adonis, shoulders swelling massively from a taut waist. From high above, the jutting contours of its deck map the outlines of a miniature continent. The newest of America's 14 aircraft carriers, the 1,092-ft-long Carl Vinson, is the most powerful and expensive conventional weapon of war ever built. It is a symbol of the Reagan Administration's new globalism, in which the 19th century notion of gunboat diplomacy has been transformed into one of aircraft-carrier diplomacy. It is the pre-eminent weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are America's Supercarriers the Weapon of the Future or a Throwback? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...male cadets ... It's an affectionate nickname, a mark of respect for her record, which brought her a cadet promotion. Like many of the women at West Point, she admits that she likes to cook and sew ... She buckles on a curved saber, wraps a purple sash around her waist. During the inspection a male cadet giggles, and jiggles his eyebrows up and down in amusement as she walks by. Because he's a classmate she says nothing. If he were a plebe she could say: 'Mister, do you know the proper position of attention?' 'Yes, ma'am.' 'Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...those who find that crunches are not enough, the L.A.-based label Not Your Daughter's Jeans has invented a jean that will flatten the stomach with a high-waist fit and clever engineering. At $88, the Tummy Tuck jean may be the quickest way to eliminate inches as well as personal trainers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Diet-Free Denim | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

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