Word: legion
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Even as governments pass laws against it, scientists say they'll move ahead. Can this genie be put back? Thumbing their noses at their legion dissenters, three scientists announced Tuesday they are fully prepared to begin cloning humans...
...American Senators, Congressmen and governors began their careers long ago as president of the senior class. They won the American Legion's "I Speak for Democracy" contest, or, like Bill Clinton, shined in Boy's Nation and posed in the Rose Garden. Then - except maybe in the case of Jesse Ventura - there ensued nothing more colorful or original than the grind through law school and after that - ambition, elections, shoeshines, smiles...
...Lowell Spinners are the Red Sox Single A short-season affiliate a mere 30 miles from the mother park. They're a team of college grads and muscled-up American Legion heroes in possession of enthusiasm, dreams and not much chance. Shea Hillenbrand was a Spinner, a fact oft-noted in Lowell these days. But you look at what's happened to Hillenbrand during his second tour of big league pitching and you realize: maybe Lowell to Boston's not that short a drive...
...friends aren’t much of a consolation, I might add. Included in their number are three future Harvard Law students. Then there’s the one going to Cambridge (England) on a scholarship, the legion of consultants and I-bankers, and the summa cum laude graduate. These are amazing and talented people, to be sure, and beloved friends. But close association with them can be a bit tough on the ol’ self-esteem. The only one I feel a kinship with is the friend who’s going to Colorado...
...book General Paul Aussaresses reveals that he and his troops tortured and killed Algerians in the battle of Algiers in 1957. He further alleged that he had acted with the full knowledge and consent of authorities in Paris. President Chirac called for Aussaresses to be stripped of his Legion of Honor and urged Defense Minister Alain Richard to consider disciplinary action against...