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...almost every reckoning, the state, if not quite Wonder bread, is at least whole wheat: overwhelmingly white and largely Protestant and middle class. Only about 2% of Iowa's 2.8 million people are black or Hispanic. The state's proportion of foreign-born residents is equally minuscule. At the Waterloo Rotary Club recently, the toastmaster told an ethnic joke -- about Norwegians from Minnesota...
...military historian who had never seen combat, John Keegan distinguished - himself a decade ago by writing The Face of Battle, a vivid triptych on three epic British battles that had all taken place within about 100 miles of one another: Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815) and the Somme (1916). Keegan ignored many considerations of high strategy and concentrated instead on what the ordinary soldiers had encountered through the centuries: the recurring experience of pain, noise, terror, courage, exhaustion...
...antiheroic style. Here is the Duke of Wellington, who described his soldiers as the "scum of the earth" and often had them flogged. But his meticulous planning and preparation enabled his disciplined troops to defeat Napoleon at Waterloo...
...friend met his Waterloo. He valiantly tried to cut out a rectangle in the plastic used for the second lamination so that the "Harvard 1987-88" validation sticker would not be covered up. But his hand slipped and his' razor blade wasn't sharp enough...
...shortly before noon when the gang of thieves struck. By ripping a screen and prying open a ground-floor window, they entered the Lily Furgerson Child Development Center in Waterloo, Iowa, and swiftly made off with $350 worth of goods. But the weekend burglary had a twist. The robbers were three small children ages 4, 5 and 7. The loot: three fancy tricycles...