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...majority of the work would be hands-on—a task that many Law School students said they were willing to take on. “The depth of the commitment is striking,” Cherlin said. “There is a willingness to do the grunt work.” Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree called on students to communicate their passion for Obama to impoverished areas, where residents may not feel the same connection to the Law School alum. “Don’t just go to your comfort zone...
...with holy indignation. And he gets money for his Savonarola sermons because he films them for peanuts: $5 million for Salvador, $6 million for Platoon. This new one is an up-tempo dirge, an I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag, about his experiences as a young grunt in Viet Nam. Stone means the drama, the carnage, the horror, the horror to be so white-hot they will cauterize and heal the wounds of war, and singe everyone's soul in the process. Well, not quite, but Platoon is still the most impressive movie to deal with...
...black players when the team plays badly. In 1995, Liberian soccer legend George Weah played his last game for PSG as racist banners and fascist symbols hung from rails; a special anti-racism themed match in 2004 inspired ultras and thousands of easily led fans to "monkey grunt" whenever a black player got the ball. Indeed, some PSG ultras have mockingly denied anti-Semitism motivated their slander of Hapoel fans and their attack on Hazout, explaining it was the same unbridled belligerence they direct at all "enemies...
...book of all the opportunities you have in the Marine Corps. What do you want to do?? Pushes it across the desk at me. I looked him in the eye and I pushed it back across the desk, y? know, and I said, ?No. I want to be a grunt. I want to blow sh-- up. That?s what I want to do.?" He snaps out of his reverie. "That?s what I got to do. I got to blow...
...Truth are an attractive, articulate, thoughtful bunch; they make an American viewer proud they represented you abroad, and hopeful about the next generation of leaders. I wish that Huze and Sarra and a few others would run for Congress, to serve as the haunted, haunting conscience of the American grunt. "Many of us are realizing, the military, that fight wasn?t our fight," one vet says. "This is our fight...