Word: soldierly
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...single man, I find it exceedingly hard to approach women. As such, I find your "Scoped" feature to be both entertaining and useful. For example, after reading the favorite pickup line of last week's Scopee, "Bow before my purple-helmeted soldier of love...please?", I went out immediately for some field-testing. It was MONEY...
...what will this can-do guy do with the near authoritarian power invested in Russia's President by its constitution? He has always been the competent staff officer, the universal soldier supremely faithful to his bosses at the time--whether they were Soviet hard boys at the KGB, reforming zealots in St. Petersburg or the corrupt and failing Yeltsin regime. Now he will be giving the orders. "We do not know enough of him, and he does not know enough of himself," says Dimitri Simes, president of Washington's Nixon Center, "to know how he will evolve...
...claim to making your own calls. (Yes, they can strap you down and stick you while you scream, if they want, but it seems unlikely. Think of the p.r.) But until Congress catches up, or until I get pregnant, it seems to me that the realhonorable thing, for this soldier, is to go along or get thrown...
...ready to take my chances. Ready to dust off that oath of last October, the one about following orders, and take The Shot and be a soldier. But until that order comes, incontrovertible, with The Shot at one end and a dishonorable discharge at the other, I will keep trying to wriggle my way out of this, as honorably as I can. I'm still working the phone, talking to the Army's people who can sometimes enforce the Army's regulations at their discretion. It's going to be a bummer either...
Another memory I have--and I don't even know if you know this--was when the Super Bowl Champions played the College All-Stars. I was at the last game at Soldier Field in 1976. My grandfather took me and my brother and my two cousins. It rained so hard they cancelled the game. I had never seen a football game cancelled because of rain. I remember sprinting back to the car--the four kids and my granddad--and my granddad took a spill in the parking...