Word: warriors
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...said last week, "I'm a warrior...
...stretched out on a beach on Ko Pha-Ngan island, those missives read like what they are: archival records of what has become, for her, a lost civilization. Torts. Civil procedure. What is he talking about? Dave would hardly recognize her now, with her navel ring, Balinese warrior tattoos and baggy Thai fisherman's pants. Tamara, this retiring, freckled brunette with a narrow body and tiny waist, this daddy's girl from La Jolla, Calif., roves the beach barebreasted in daylight and raves the night away at Full Moon parties or up at the Backyard trance club. She will tell...
...just an illusion. Only a small number of people had been screened by the secret service and invited to his contrived victory celebration. Huffington accosted us on the way out, so we listened to her strange and lilting accent while she towered above us all like a veritable Amazon warrior. She handed us a pamphlet for her latest cause, "OverthrowtheGov.com," and posed for a photo. We were once again unstoppable, pretending that our Harvard ID and driver's license would work as a press pass. While one intrepid UPN reporter said he had a "chat session" inside and attempted...
...frustrations apart, familiarity with the Army has not bred contempt, or at least not much. All the answers were not, as it turned out, to be found among the heaps of rules and procedures and training manuals that we waded through every day. Nor in the distant and anonymous warrior-bureaucracy. Rather, the virtuous were nearby and all had faces. Recruiters take note: It is a powerful selling point, to get to know these drill sergeants and lieutenant colonels and soldiers who patrol this encased little corner of the world. I bade them all farewell with real fondness...
...like there's a deliberate effort to whitewash all that ugly history. Take the national Capitol in Washington. Many of the huge sandstone blocks it's built out of were quarried by slave laborers. In fact, The Statue of Freedom--the figure of a Native American woman warrior that stands on the dome--was cast in bronze by slave laborers in 1863 and hoisted up there. You'd think there would be a national museum or monument to them, but there isn't even a plaque...