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...President. "If he succeeds, they'll praise him; if he fails, they'll criticize him," said Representative Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat. A Republican congressional staff member was even more blunt. "If the Commander in Chief wants to hang himself," he said, "who are we to take away his rope...
...rationales have long been forgotten. They're useless." Indeed, the Citadel's ego-stripping program can be worse than useless. One Citadel graduate was among the four Rangers who froze to death in a training exercise in Florida this year. His instructors told him to continue to string a rope in 52-degree water, and he did so until he died. Pentagon statistics show that since 1989 seven soldiers have died in training for every one killed in combat...
...state handouts, are either fools or hypocrites. But at the same time, it is, and plausibly should be, a legitimate function of government patronage to encourage promising forms of artistic expression that are not familiar enough to find their way in the marketplace. This is a thin rope to walk; the NEA fell off it and broke a leg. But you don't kill the endowment over that, any more than you abolish the U.S. Navy because of Tailhook...
...floor of the local movie theater where the four screens of "Pocahontas" were located, I headed for the elevator by the concession stand rather than tackling an escalator in a crowd. As I got closer to the elevator, I noticed that it was blocked off by movie theater red rope. Since my friends had already gone upstairs on the escalator, I pressed on to the elevator--by getting on my hands and knees to go under the rope...
...disappeared down the street. When the El Paso police opened the trunk, they discovered three bodies: those of Josa Munoz Rubalcava, a retired Mexican police official, and his two sons, Alberto, 24, and Casar, 21. Someone had stabbed all three men in the back, trussed them with rope and added a macabre finishing touch to the father's corpse. "[He] had yellow cord tied around the mouth with a bow," says Travis Kuykendall, the agent in charge of El Paso's Drug Enforcement Administration office. "It looked like they were wrapped up for somebody, like a present...