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The mood is less brave than bleak on the moor of Tweedy's farm, in the mid-'50s. Mrs. Tweedy, the vicious camp commandant (voiced by Miranda Richardson), and her slow-witted, henpecked husband (Tony Haygarth) have shown her prisoners what happens to a hen who hasn't laid eggs...
In fact, the Chechens were just biding their time. Last week guerrillas came out of nowhere to raid three important towns. Creeping into Argun, mixing with local residents, attackers assaulted Russian troops occupying buildings in the town square, killing 10 or 20 before ferocious return fire drove them off. In...
The Marines see their behavior differently. "The Marine Corps shares your grief and frustration," General T.R. Dake, the assistant commandant, wrote the Browne family last month. Yet the service has taken no action against Bell, the Marines argue, because the corps can't pinpoint the cause of the crash and...
Last summer she plodded through the required reading list as if it was one long, dreadful homework assignment. By August she was only midway through the first of four novels. And that's when I became the commandant of our reading boot camp. Every day I set aside at least...
GRADUATED. NANCY RUTH MACE, 21, the first female cadet to finish at the Citadel; in Charleston, S.C. CHIH-YUAN HO, 23, and MELISSA KAY GRAHAM, 21, the first women to complete training at the Virginia Military Institute; in Lexington, Va. Mace, who received her magna cum laude degree from her...