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...women entered the more prestigious service academies in the mid-'70s, there was an effort made to ease their way. The first classes were substantial (119 women started at West Point in 1976), and standards were quietly made equivalent without being the same (hair could be cut to collar length, 18 push-ups in two minutes instead of some 40). Female officers now routinely graduate with distinction. In 1995, Rebecca Marier beat out 988 fellow cadets to graduate first at West Point...
McVeigh: The federal agents had been there several hours letting the crowd and media build up. Twice I asked for a [bulletproof] vest, but no one gave me one. When I walked out, the agents with me were an arm's length away from me. I expected to be shot and killed...
...like Benny Hill--without, of course, the late British comic's leering smirk. Her voice is high-pitched, nasal and a trifle slurred, her frequent laugh a piercing cackle. At a time when some Roman Catholic nuns wear discreet designer clothes, she is resolutely old-fashioned in her ankle-length brown robe and hair-concealing white scapular. The Catholicism she espouses is old-fashioned as well, redolent with devotion to the Virgin Mary and the Latin-rite mass, deeply rooted in the Baltimore Catholicism of the 1940s. Some critics call her "the zinging nun" for her forthright attacks on feminists...
...course catalog is approximately the same length as previous catalogs, Smith said, and no fundamental changes have been made to the number of courses which are listed...
...length of the sourcebook also makes adifference in cost, Witt said...