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...planned an elaborate ruse involving a cardigan and beret disguise to penetrate ADPhi, and we invented a fake e-mail address—isitsobadtobemisunderstood@gmail.com, registered to one “Ralph Emerson”—to track down “whitman...
...This produces some jarring juxtapositions. Though he has built his career on dire warnings about the dangers of foreigners, Strache poses on his website as Che Guevara, donning the rebel's trademark beret and highlighting the last three letters of his name for anyone who misses the point. He praises Venezuela's left-wing demagogue Hugo Chavez and, in his campaign rap "Viva HC!", chants "Yes-We-Can" (in English), a reference to the campaign slogan of Barack Obama. That's an odd choice given that Strache is urging that some African immigrants be deported. "Austria! First!" he sings, backed...
...great golfers of each generation fuse the two approaches. Tiger Woods regularly reassembles his golf swing - sometimes midround - if he feels his technique needs tweaking. But as the son of a Green Beret father and a Buddhist mother, he brings to the game an idiosyncratic brand of mental resilience and focus that is unmatched by his rivals. When Tiger was 13, his father, Earl Woods, hired a Navy clinical psychologist who reportedly used interrogation techniques to test the boy's concentration. "I tried to break him down mentally," Earl once said. "I tried to intimidate...
...When the funding starts to dry up, they start to get desperate," says Colonel Bill Coultrup, the Jolo-based commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Task Force, which provides military assistance, training and intelligence assistance to Philippine forces. Coultrup's 500 men, who include Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs, are spread throughout the Philippines. Inside a nondescript, windowless building at the task force's Jolo Island base, a half-dozen soldiers are studying laptops. A large screen on the wall shows the video feed from an unmanned drone cruising over potential Abu Sayyaf hideouts in the jungle...
...here, but I have faith in you, gentle reader. Just because someone else is dressing like they’re about to go hunting in the moors with Queen Elizabeth and her 17 new hounds doesn’t mean you have to. And when in doubt, wear a beret. —Columnist Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached at harring@fas.harvard.edu...