Word: troops
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...Well, on June 29, Bryant Gumbel, a host of CBS-TV's "The Early Show," did a truculent interview with Robert Knight of the Family Research Council. They were discussing the Supreme Court's decision upholding the Boy Scouts' ban on gay troop leaders. Knight supported the court's decision because keeping gay men out of scoutmaster posts comported with Knight's religious views. Gumbel took the opposite view, and applied his surly, uninteresting mind to cuffing Knight about...
...occupied by Redwood Elementary School. A mannequin in the school's red-and-blue uniform presides over a spread of student-made dioramas and papier-mache, painstakingly displayed by Redwood parents in an all-day decorating marathon. On a recent Saturday, the school's choir serenaded shoppers while a troop of parent volunteers was on hand with brochures extolling the virtues of a Redwood education--and urging shoppers to sign up their kids. "I can already see the day when parents of newborns will call me up and say they want to register their kids at Redwood," says principal Butch...
They're not saying they agree with the Boy Scouts, mind you, but the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the 90-year-old organization has the right to bar gay men from becoming troop leaders. The 5-4 decision also serves another purpose; by accepting the Scouts' interpretation of their oath - which requires members to be "morally straight and clean," and therefore, apparently, not gay - the Supreme Court has effectively banned openly gay boys and men from ever joining a local troop or participating in scouting activities...
...pursuit of retreating rebel soldiers, Tavington comes riding up to Martin's plantation at the head of a cavalry troop. Insouciantly, even rather jauntily, he orders all the Americans--most of them wounded--to be shot, the plantation fired, and for good measure, he marches Gabriel (by this time a dispatch rider for the valiant Colonel Harry Burwell, played by Chris Cooper) off to be hanged. When one of Martin's other sons tries to rescue his brother, he is coldly murdered...
...improve military readiness and troop morale...