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...notch 10 victories and end the season undefeated. All this success should be an indication to couch-dwellers and nerds residing in Cambridge (not the ones at MIT, but our own) that Harvard athletic events are worth attending, and we have a program we can be more than proud...
...kids who hoped to pass through the Army on their way to riches now found that the road to Wall Street might include a detour through Baghdad. Their families had some strong feelings--strong but by no means uniform--just as the cadets did. Parents who were once proud that their kids would enter adulthood with great skills and no debts now told them, "Hey, we sold our house at the top of the market. We can afford to send you anywhere you want to go. Maybe we should talk about a transfer to someplace ... safer." "The class...
...career in uniform was fading. The Berlin Wall fell during his freshman year. "We went from the cold war to a thousand points of light," he recalls. "The feeling was, What are we doing?" During the first Gulf War, in 1991, the academy took to playing I'm Proud to Be an American again and again in Eisenhower Hall. "I just thought, O.K. already, I get it," he recalls. To this day, he can't quite bear to hear it. It's his version of Gulf War syndrome, he jokes...
...being worried about their future is hard on�cadets, it's nothing compared with what their parents are going through. For the class of '05, the coming of war changed the math. Parents who were proud of their kids for taking on the challenge of West Point faced a test of their own when it became clear that in this war and in wars to come, there was no safe specialty, no escape from the dangers of combat. "Ten years ago, parents were pushing their cadets to come here," Lieut. General Lennox observes. "Now it's the other way around...
...threadbare office in an old villa across from the site of his future headquarters, he couldn't be happier being cast as the underdog. "Some are saying that it can't be done out of Doha," he declares with a bravado that would make a Ted Turner proud. "Well, they always said it couldn't be done out of Atlanta. But CNN proved everyone wrong." Come next year, Parsons will discover if he has done the same. --With reporting by Amany Radwan/Cairo