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...want to retain the top brass while all the real jobs are already gone?" Geer added. The city council supports the move out of political cowardliness, Geer said...
There is a momentary twinge of regret in Howie's young heart. He realizes that he has messed up his job. But then he looks down on the thousands of colorful balloons and the shiny brass instruments of the band. He sees the happy, smiling faces of Our Next President and Our Next First Lady and the Democrats below. Howie President suddenly feels a surge of happiness...
...myth; in fact, much of what we know of classical Greek thought was preserved by Arab scholars, without whose efforts we would know little or nothing of Aristotle. In science, Europe until the 14th century was illiterate compared with the Arab world, and a group of exquisitely made brass instruments in this show reminds one that the universal astrolabe was invented in al-Andalus around...
...Pentagon brass is now vocally hell-bent for reform. "Perhaps we can't change your attitude," Army Brigadier General Thomas Jones told TIME, "but we can darn well change your conduct." Perhaps not fast enough. The dominant attitude among naval aviators seems to be that it is not possible to be both an officer and a gentleman. "Subjecting these guys to classes in sexual harassment is like telling them not to smoke or drink," explains Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. "You can't oversocialize them because that might even drive out the best pilots." Some Pentagon officials...
...still a majority of the population and provide most of the soldiers, and it has proved that it is ready to turn its guns on its own people, if necessary, to hang on to power. There is some fear now of another outright coup to keep the brass in control...