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Although she was once discouraged from seeking a promotion to sergeant because "we can't have female supervisors," Watson, who has two young children, is not troubled by memories of machismo. "Look where I am now!" she exulted last week. "Heck, obviously I haven't been too put-upon...
Lehtinen affects a paramilitary style that has won him few friends around the office. He posts his motto -- NO GUTS. NO GLORY --on bulletin boards, barks orders like a drill sergeant, and once waved a toy AK-47 at his staff. He often shouts and curses, and has been known to throw objects. A number of experienced prosecutors have left, including Richard Gregorie, the 17-year veteran who got the Noriega indictment...
...southern West Germany about 75 miles east of Stuttgart, U.S. Army Captain Terry Quinn points cheerfully at a squat, wide-track staff vehicle parked near a rural Bavarian crossroads. "That," he says, "is a tank." Nearby a sergeant fans a deck of cardboard chits with shell totals printed on them. "And this," he says, "is our ammunition...
...promotion exams will find 65 percent more minorities eligible to take exams than last year's seargent exams," said Healy. By raising the number of minority officers eligible for promotions, Healy said, the department will see a corresponding rise in the number of minorities appointed to the ranks of sergeant and lieutenant...
...less capable hands, John Rawlins, the illiterate gravedigger who becomes a sergeant major in Glory, and Hoke Colburn, the courtly chauffeur in Miss Daisy, could have become sterile symbols of good intentions. But Freeman's performances are so finely calibrated that these characters emerge as men of true heft and substance. Says Glory director Edward Zwick: "Morgan inhabits a role rather than performs...