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...that every member of today's all-volunteer force willingly accepted in signing up. As the most powerful nation on earth, the U.S., whether it likes it or not, has the responsibility of protecting the innocent and weak against tyranny and aggression. Who else can be the "meanest dog in town,'' as Defense Secretary William Perry put it? SCOTT M. NEWMAN Annapolis, Maryland...
...where it has historic ties, Russian troops may participate as well, although their role has yet to be determined. "We are proposing a powerful force," said Perry. "If attacked by anyone, it will bring a large hammer down on them. It will be the biggest, the toughest and the meanest dog in town." In keeping with the cost of Pentagon hardware, the American contribution to the price tag on this hammer will come to about $1.5 billion...
...something of a miracle that Mother Angelica entered the religious life. Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, and the product of a broken home, she remembers the sisters who taught her in parochial school as "the meanest people on God's earth." Nonetheless, at 18 she joined the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, a traditional, strictly cloistered order of Franciscan nuns with special devotion to the consecrated host which is, Catholics believe, the Body of Christ. Crippled in a work accident, she vowed to establish a convent of her own in the predominantly Protestant South if she regained...
...fast start again is crucial for the Crimson, especially after the disastrous opening 20 minutes on Monday. Furthermore, falling behind early could put the team in another very tough situation because Lynah Rink has some of the noisiest and meanest fans in the country...
...Verbal-insult trading is admittedly not a viable option. Hillary Clinton may think a certain Congressman whose name rhymes with "thin witch" is a bastard or an s.o.b., but neither appellation has anything like the force of bitch. The meanest things you can say about a man boil down to attacks on a woman: the mother insult, implying subhuman status and moralsand men can experience its sting only indirectly, at a generation's remove...