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...equip his flock psychologically for the battles to come, Koresh reportedly played and replayed videos of his favorite movies about the Vietnam War: Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Hamburger Hill. His followers prepared themselves physically with weight training, military-style drills and obstacle-course runs. To acquaint them with the experience of famine, their vegetarian diet was strictly rationed. Daily life was a harsh mix of work and Bible study. Men labored at construction around the compound, while modestly dressed women did household chores and schooled the children, who were rarely taken off the grounds. Television was forbidden, and children...
Harvard police reports from April 1991 listed the suspect, who has not been apprehended, as a Black male of average weight, between 25 and 30 years of age. The assailant had a moustache and was wearing a black military jacket...
...Force One last Wednesday to go to the town meeting in Detroit. It's a $181 million Boeing 747 with an office, computer center, conference room, bedroom, 85 phones, 18 televisions, soft lighting and an operating room for emergency surgery. Clinton put on the blue serge flight jacket with the presidential seal and settled in to work the phones. "It's a lot better than Air Elvis," he remarked, a reference to his campaign plane, which resembled a homeless shelter. It is better, and if he's not careful, he will get used...
Fire department officers were alerted by a passing jogger, the Boston Herald reported. The jogger spotted the victim's brightly colored jacket through an ice hole near the Massachusetts Avenue bridge...
...such victories are sporadic at best. Last spring a Manhattan and New Jersey discount clothier named Daffy's ran an ad showing a straitjacket with the caption, "If you're paying over $100 for a dress shirt, may we suggest a jacket to go with it?" Protesters picketed a store, wrote letters and petitioned the New York City Commission on Human Rights. A Daffy's spokesperson insisted that the ad was humorous and called the protest unfair...