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...long Republican, he was a social liberal, as he proved during World War II. When he took his military show "This Is the Army" on the road, his troupe was the only integrated company in uniform. Everyone traveled together, and if a hotel wouldn't allow blacks, the whole unit stayed in a black hotel...
...films: "Irving Berlin's 'On the Avenue,'" "Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas,'" Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies,'" "Irving Berlin's 'There's No Business Like Show Business'" and the grammatically confounding "Irving Berlin's 'Alexander's Ragtime Band.?" Even in the service, he needed to own things; the unit for his World War II show had as its official title "Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, Provisional Task Force, Service Supply Force, U.S. Army...
...still wish I was there. I had a brush with your kind of service - more of tease, really - when my unit reported to Egypt this October for Exercise Bright Star. There was plenty of talk that it was just a way station, that our two weeks in the sands had an option to buy another six months in the mountains and caves, but it never happened. Not our turn...
Salah Darwazeh provides a case in point. Before the intifadeh, Darwazeh, a Hamas bombmaker, got to know members of Arafat's Force 17 security unit when they guarded his cell at the Jeneid prison in the West Bank city of Nablus. When he was released, he paid them to watch over his bombmaking lab on Wadi Tuffah Street in Nablus, an arrangement that continued until Darwazeh was assassinated by Israel in July. Other examples of common effort...
...world-class expert--superbly trained, heedlessly brave, a figure set very much apart from the rest of us. In large measure, that's because his elite military status has given him something he didn't find in school or on the streets back home--that fierce pride in self, unit and mission that accrues when you are volunteering your life to be, as the recruiting slogan would have it, all that...