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  • Whatever you think of Strandlof and the months he masqueraded as a brain-injured veteran, the simple truth two months after his web of lies came apart is that public disgrace seems to have changed him little. Heroes or Villains?
  • Even among the veterans, there is no consensus: is it an economic area or something much greater with supra-national ambition? Times, Sunday Times
  • Gulf War veterans fighting to prove hundreds of former servicemen have been crippled and killed by a mysterious syndrome caused by their time in the conflict have been dealt a massive blow - their own solicitors say the case is unprovable.
  • This World War II romance film makes Amanda feel all warm and cozy, as only stories of convicts and shell-shocked veterans can.
  • Wilson also dispensed with the ceremoniousness hamstringing Boston's other lyceums, such as their practice of staging elaborate quasi-military "Banner Marches," which they sometimes even performed before military veterans. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Harriet Wilson's Sunday School
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  • We all see the writing on the wall," said Rick Goodwin, a China trade veteran of 22 years, whose company links foreign buyers with Chinese suppliers.
  • Veterans must be treated fairly and expeditiously as they seek compensation for disability or illness.
  • This has provoked anger among some Labour veterans who spent the Eighties in vicious battles with the impossibilist left to return the party to electability. Despite their hopes of a great revival, the left got left behind
  • So maybe you'll get what we call a titty brim," said Tommy Bryant, a veteran north Florida bass and panfish guide, grinning. Spring Tactics for Big Bluegill from Field and Stream's John Merwin
  • Philippe Noiret, the sagacious French veteran, plays the mentor Alfredo in this life story of Salvatore "Toto" Di Vitto, a director manque' depicted as a child by Salvatore Cascio.
  • Am I the only one who's embarrassed to admit that I don't trust that every guy with a card board sign at the freeway off ramp is really a veteran? Senator: 131,000 homeless vets a 'disgrace'
  • The payments will be staggered, giving priority to child support grants in June, old-age grants and war veterans in July, disability grants and grants-in-aid in August and foster-care grants in September.
  • Misuse of alcohol and drugs are key factors behind offending by veterans and a high proportion of crimes are linked to domestic violence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Veteran goalie Mike Vernon, the offseason acquisition made to return stability to the San Jose goal, was off his game.
  • Instead, they got Richards to acknowledge that a motivated forger with advanced technology could fool even veteran photo analysts.
  • A veteran fund-raiser finds it tough going as she seeks her fourth round of financing
  • Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was a combat veteran of World War I, and acutely sensitive to the murderous nihilism of modern warfare.
  • After wooing the Eastleigh audience with another blockbusting performance, the veteran entertainer vowed to fans that he would be back again next year.
  • Accornero, a 24-year law enforcement veteran, was appointed chief in 1994.
  • A band drummer stood behind the veteran reading, to give a drum roll after each name was called out.
  • Another veteran of the 1960 Rome Olympics taking part is the Rev Basil Pratt, who was an Army padre in the Falklands and the first Gulf War.
  • Legend by then had fructified Chapman (1774-1845), a footloose (and footsore) son of a Bunker Hill veteran, into a mythic, apple-spreading American nomad of the lonesome frontier. A Pro-Growth Strategy
  • His black cloak had seen service; the waistcoat of grey plaid bore yet stronger marks of having encountered more than one campaign; his third piece of dress was an absolute veteran compared to the others; his shoes were so loaded with mud as showed his journey must have been pedestrian; and a grey maud, which fluttered around his wasted limbs, completed such an equipment as, since Count Robert of Paris
  • Veterans are disappointed if not a little angered by the dither and delay which means the collection is now going 100 miles away.
  • Even then, John was a seasoned veteran of local politics; for the last quarter century, he has championed the rights and the needs of the homeless and low-income tenants, the forgotten underclasses of a city that hates the poor.
  • It is a treat to watch a veteran betel chewer go about the serious business of betel chewing.
  • A starting Lufthansa pilot now nets a base salary of about $50,000 a year, while a veteran can earn up to $140,000.
  • What is difficult to overlook is her record of being totally ineffective as a four-term assemblywomen, her inability or unwillingness to work with others, even within her own party, and her extreme positions on issues such as Medicare, social security, education, veterans affairs and many others. Mitchell Bard: The Tea Party All-Stars: The Worst of Extreme GOP Midterm Candidates
  • Dealing with my Father MSgt Leslie Cooper USAF Retired who died a paralyzing horrible death from cancer exposure to working on Titan II ICBMS and having daily contact with Veterans and Veterans with Service Connected disabilities, they are considered noncombat and face more dangers of dying an early age than those in combat and they are the Cold War Veterans. 911 VETERANS AND SURVIVING SPOUSES NEED HELP!
  • But he might have fallen into the veteran's trap of looking for easy solutions to vexing problems. FOOLS GOLD
  • In 1999, several veteran senior managers left, including Martin Neath, formerly executive vice president.
  • Roed-Larsen, a veteran of Middle East crises, said after the closed door meeting that the region is at a critical juncture. US: Hezbollah, Syria, Iran Threaten Lebanon's Stability
  • Judging from all the telephone calls and emails flying around right now among intelligence veterans, the mood is one of disappointment and genuine concern.
  • Among the protesters and war veterans proudly displaying their medals was Aubrey Rose.
  • Times-Union an "initial investigation revealed that someone in the regional office intentionally entered veterans 'claim documents with incorrect dates -- called' backdating '-- into an internal database. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • The insult to one of the most senior members of the House, a Vietnam veteran, was a violation of the body's customary decorum as well as its rules, which bar members from directly addressing each other.
  • Regular for a fortnight were the inquiries of the Antiquary at the veteran Caxon, whether he had heard what Mr. Lovel was about; and as regular were Caxon's answers, "that the town could learn naething about him whatever, except that he had received anither muckle letter or twa frae the south, and that he was never seen on the plainstanes at a '. The Antiquary — Complete
  • The veteran, who seemed to be pacing himself, has flipped the on switch.
  • In Mthatha, there will be a youth football tournament, a "heroes marathon" and a seminar to celebrate not only Mandela's 90th birthday but that of another African National Congress veteran Albertina Sisulu as well. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, it's called a Wiccan pentacle and starting this week veterans of that faith now have the option of having this controversial symbol associated with witchcraft placed on their headstones. CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2007
  • Some veterans may not get their medals for months. Times, Sunday Times
  • WHISTLER In his fourth Olympics, U.S. biathlon veteran Jay Hakkinen was determined not to let his team go out meekly from a disappointing Games. After disappointing Olympics, U.S. biathletes look forward
  • Jerm is the veteran MC who knows how to ride a beat in succinct or elongated fashion depending on what’s required. Helladope’s Grand Hello « PubliCola
  • The report deluged him with criticism, albeit worded in the silky prose of a veteran mandarin.
  • Then there's another police chief, suspicious of the veteran cop's dubious tactics on the job.
  • I understand that the network needs to constantly stay ahead of and predict trends, and they obviously do that with inductions of new shows, like the "carb"-focused ones, but surely not at the expense of the stable of veterans that built FoodTV from the beginning to what it is today. Archive 2005-03-01
  • But would these sprightly veterans have been better advised to avoid the stresses and strains of full-time toil in old age?
  • Here is an important fact that sometimes surprises even veteran Internet surfers: you don't have to be connected to the Internet to use a Web browser!
  • Veteran traders say U.S. grains feel "toppy" after last week's rally to multimonth highs, but many remained hesitant to pick a direction for the coming week given the outside storms rattling the markets. Reuters: Top News
  • The veteran car and safety equipment manufacturers' ideas of melted nylon webbing in the belt are logical, according to Melvin.
  • Meanwhile, Doug Sample, a Canadian veteran of the war, who served as a gunner in Halifax bombers of the Canadian 415 Squadron, has made his 20th visit to York.
  • One of my goals was to query veteran leaders about the structure of their week. Christianity Today
  • Music was supplied by Woodfalls Junior Band and there were dancing displays by the New Forest School of Dancing, falcons, vintage and veteran vehicles, stalls, sideshows and various competitions.
  • Acting Mayor Vladimir Resin, a veteran bureaucrat, gave a Soviet-style report on the city that left television viewers with little hope he would make any major changes until the Kremlin appoints a new mayor, presumably within one month. Moscow's Fired Mayor Slams Door on Leaving City Hall
  • Veterans Affairs that, as a paratrooper and artilleryman, he exchanged fire with enemy combatants and was engaged in an incident of friendly fire. William Devereaux
  • He is closemouthed on the specifics of other cuts, but in San Francisco recently he strongly hinted, to an audience composed mostly of Marine Corps veterans, that he is aiming at one of the Marines 'most cherished programs, a high-speed assault craft for amphibious landings. A War Within
  • The Cure are the personification of the not-quite and the not-yet: not quite execrated but never really respected; not punk veterans but not yet generic Goff.
  • Along with good jobs and an extensive system of social services, loving wives and mothers facilitated the process of rehabilitating bitter and "maladjusted" veterans who might otherwise destabilize American society and politics. 51 Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II
  • The pairing of a veteran Cuban pianist with one of the rising stars of flamenco on a selection of Cuban and other Latin American standards seems to be a case in point.
  • The reintegration of veterans into peacetime society is also important.
  • Edwin van der Sar, 39, had nothing to apologise for, but the veteran understandably does not dominate the goalmouth.
  • X factor: Veteran Weissensteiner, 37, the Lillehammer gold medalist, is no longer a consistent threat on the tour, but could surprise in her home country. USATODAY.com - 'Mean Jean' is back, but sliding under the radar in Torino
  • Each approaches the material with the practiced ease of a veteran, and the result is a pair of three-dimensional characters.
  • The veteran worker has two good apprentices working with him.
  • It brought together veteran anti-nuclear protesters with new people.
  • For newbies, this is still a great game, but for veterans of previous iterations, there's no reason to switch.
  • York war veteran Joe Munday today spoke of his anger towards thieves who ransacked his house and stole his prized medals.
  • Such a warrior is invariably a veteran, and a mistress of the art of war.
  • The veteran American crooner and his band. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the open kitchen, Chinatown veterans, who go by Mr. Chen (shown here) and Mr. Gao, stretch dough into ropey noodles, available thick or thin. Mid-Day Hand-Pulled Noodle
  • Claiming he was willing to put that behind him, Raggio added, "What is difficult to overlook is [Angle's] record of being totally ineffective as a four-term assemblywoman, her inability or unwillingness to work with others, even within her own party, and her extreme positions on issues such as Medicare, social security, education, veterans affairs and many others. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • DR STEVE HAGEMOSER, TREATS PTSD VICTIMS IN IOWA: We don't use the word cheerer (ph) with our veterans, but we do like to let them know the truth that there is life after PTSD. CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2005
  • Even after adjusting for these factors, Costa and Kahn found that veterans from companies lacking in cohesion were six times more likely than peers from cohesive companies to suffer from arteriolosclerosis or to have heart attacks or strokes by their late 50s or early 60s. Environmental and Urban Economics
  • Right-back Andy Hill is ruled out by a stomach strain and veteran Ray Ranson will fill the gap.
  • The commemoration service began with the veterans being called to attention before they marched over a bridge, now known as Gloster Bridge. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The man behind the anniversary jump is veteran parachutist Geoffrey Holmes from Henley-on-Thames.
  • Veteran rockers Queen, along with Razorlight and Simple Minds, will top the entertainment line-up.
  • Now the veteran is aiming to pick up another bundle of joy in the form of a gold medal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Veterans Affairs Minister Alan Griffin said Anzac Day was an occasion for remembering those who fought and died for their country, not for shopping. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • Each passing year leaves us with fewer veterans of the First World War to describe eye-witness accounts of the horror, bravery and comradeship at the front.
  • A trailer often involves a fast once-over of the whole film," says veteran film critic Roger Ebert. Look away now: Do movie spoilers really matter?
  • The screen veteran is the biggest name on the Queen's birthday honours list, receiving a knighthood.
  • He is a veteran of over 1,500 qawwali and ghazal programmes.
  • If forced to examine the movie from that sociological mountaintop, veteran costume designer Ann Roth is right.
  • Veteran Democratic Rep. Leonard Boswell is facing a threat from Republican Brad Zaun. Statewide Races Could Tip House Contests
  • But for the most part, the second half of All the World's a Stage put aside serious concerns in favor of laughter and ribaldry, and showcased the intelligence and heart of Shakespeare Behind Bars veteran Jerry Guenthner.
  • It is a vindication for Li Peng, the veteran Leninist central planner.
  • Veteran usher, Neil, has worked at the same theatre for seven years.
  • Four or five times every week, Whitfield says, the Memorial Ladies and the guardsmen are the only witnesses at funerals of veterans who were homeless or outlived immediate relatives. Chron.com Chronicle
  • Inglett played mostly infield during spring training, but second baseman Rickie Weeks hasn't missed a game and veteran Craig Counsell has been used to spell shortstop Alcides Escobar. National League Team Notes
  • He has become the spine of a team which blends experienced veterans and youth.
  • Now the veteran is aiming to pick up another bundle of joy in the form of a gold medal. Times, Sunday Times
  • All keen chaps, veterans of the Iraq or Bosnian thing, hot-blooded the lot of them. CORMORANT
  • In Washington, a veteran of the demonstrations was in the midst of a fast that began on Tuesday.
  • MEN who helped to win the war in the air 60 years ago were back behind the controls, as veteran flyers and aircraft took to the skies over York.
  • The singing, including some golden oldies which date many fans as Stretford End and United Road veterans of the 1970s and 80s, have a joy, as well as defiance, about them. FC United of Manchester hope to make friends rather than millionaires
  • For the last time, I'm a (expletive deleted) veteran.
  • We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers. Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?
  • In the early days of Operation Iraqi Disaster, I engaged in some fact-based blog discussion with what can only be described as a hard-right, neo-fascist group of truly wacky self-described “veterans”, who took my dissention from the party line as a clear case of Treason, and Anti-Americanism. Waldo Jaquith - High-profile bloggers planning code of conduct.
  • She will dock in Cherbourg later on June 5 and veterans will be taken to commemorative services on June 6.
  • The place is awash with arms and with veterans still fit enough to fight. Times, Sunday Times
  • Consider the rarity of a Vickers gun - handmade by an 18-year-veteran of not just Special Forces, but the most elite group in the entire spec ops community.
  • Many veterans of the Civil War were treated there, some of whom are buried in a cemetery on the grounds.
  • Throughout our conversation, as one veteran good-naturedly needles the other, all the teen-angst details come out.
  • McCain meanwhile, is a decorated war veteran who spent nearly five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. McCain in Colorado - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Veterans denied a pension and incapable of supporting themselves might seek charity under the provisions of the Poor Laws.
  • At first, like other returning veterans, Frankie faces the future with optimism.
  • The recent decision by four veteran House Democrats to call it quits is raising questions about whether more will soon follow as the 2010 political climate grows more threatening in the midterm congressional elections, a year when government and business forecasters are predicting high unemployment and a slow economic recovery. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 22, 2009
  • People truly do not understand the extent to which new media is not a business," said Marshall Herskovitz, the veteran television producer who last year declared his independence from the networks and created "quarterlife," a web series and social media hub. Sharon Waxman: Can Hollywood Make Like Obama -- and Change?
  • A veteran who has started games and isn't yet gumming his food, Matthews can hold down the fort as a fill-in.
  • Further complicating matters is Faunia's ex-husband Farley, a psychotic Vietnam veteran.
  • Darker and more harrowing is Saved starring Scottish veterans Irene McCallum and Edith McArthur in a poignant tale of a soft-hearted young nurse on a dementia ward.
  • We have to give credit to the young generation of education "reformers" for a political game as dirty as that of the cagiest old veteran hatchet men. John Thompson: It Is Time for Charter and Neighborhood School Teachers to Unite
  • Even veteran quarterbacks make a mess of these ad-lib moments.
  • It was a particularly grisly murder case and one that understandably shook the veteran blues man to his core.
  • After 13 years playing the stubborn, long-pocketed and irascible Inspector Morse, this week will see the veteran actor finally wave goodbye to his most famous role.
  • Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory.
  • A specialized policy means you're covered whether you're just starting out with a brief trip, or a veteran full-timer pulling all the amenities of home behind you.
  • Mankins showed enough in minicamps and training camp to become the starter at left guard, replacing veteran Joe Andruzzi.
  • the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs was created in 1989
  • After the crushing blow on Monday, a medal would have been fitting reward for the two-times Olympic veteran, who is to retire at the end of this season.
  • St. Mark's repair estimate replacing water-laden timbers and rotting boards on the facing, repairing the bell's carriage, and having the nerve and skill to do it all from four stories up on a scaffold came from veteran steeplejack Michael Hardin of Litchfield, Ohio. Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker
  • Given that PTSD sometimes takes years to surface in a veteran, these numbers are almost assuredly going to grow. Times, Sunday Times
  • For instance, a widow from Pontiac calls about her husband, a veteran who's just died.
  • GET HIRED! that a positive performance review separates you from the broad-brush sameness mentality recruiters paint veterans with. Jerry Chautin: Veterans Get a Raw Deal -- Again
  • Upon this threshold of a wild scene of death they, in short, defied the proportion of events with that splendor of heedlessness which belongs only to veterans. The Little Regiment
  • A war veteran was given a pauper's funeral after a care home manager stole his life savings. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has levied heavily on the memory of the veterans in writing the history of the war.
  • A Veterans Day speaker in Graves 'Missouri district had addressed the crowd, including a National Guard unit preparing to deploy, while wearing an unearned Navy Cross pin. Media Information Sheet
  • MCI, in an effort to distance itself from the accounting scandals that plagued the company when it went by the name WorldCom, on Tuesday named a defense contractor veteran as its chief ethics officer.
  • And so if you don't beat the military uniform hard enough, we like to drop the roll, like, as soon as we put the fiber, the combat paper project through its workshops seeks to allow the veteran to kind of deconstruct their uniform and deconstruct their experiences in a very comfortable environment and create cathartic works of art. CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009
  • Oxygen thieves, vermin and blowflies is how one particular group of veterans regard these imposters, running their own investigations of frauds and posting the results on their website. ARTHUR REX CRANE
  • The founders were certainly no ingénues, being a mix of aspiring broadcasters and more seasoned radio veterans.
  • All members of Sistah Blue are veteran musicians with accomplished musical careers.
  • Albert Walton, a Korean War veteran in Carthage and a friend of Heroes or Villains?
  • So each time you see a "vet" or "veteran" of an illegal war remember that by and large the full description being elided is "veteran criminal," even when they are "veteran fools" and criminals only for being too stupid to know better. Vietnam: Still an Unjust War « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Aging veterans are now adding their memoirs and personal accounts to the body of literature written in the first three decades after World War II.
  • Moyes is the referee, which is just as well as the fixture generally has a bit of needle to it: the veterans needing to continually reassert their prowess over the younger generation.
  • The forensic anthropologist from the POW/MIA Accounting group who helped chisel the veteran out of the glacier was expected to arrive at the morgue late Thursday afternoon, when he and the coroner's staff would decide the extent of examination that should take place there. Remains Returned List WWII
  • Now we know why veteran Celtics guard Dee Brown asked to be traded.
  • The announcer of prizes was Bob Danvers-Walker, the veteran Pathé newsreel commentator.
  • A veteran member of a company will order a gullible newcomer to find the key to the curtain.
  • And he thinks parochial issues such as veterans' benefits won't swing the election.
  • Broncos MLB Al, the team's leading tackler and lone veteran linebacker healthy, was having an Pro Bowl-caliber season before suffering a neck stinger on Sunday.
  • Mr. Kan had promised to root out "money politics" after a veteran power broker in his party was caught up in a scandal.
  • a handless war veteran
  • The framers of the Constitution were veterans of a revolution against a king whose divine right to rule the colonies was sanctioned by the official church of England.
  • Josie intends to join him when she has completed her assignment for Jones, a hardened veteran of the juicy tidbit wars.
  • For veteran IM Banks readers there are a lot of allusions to his Culture novels and their themes, and you will re-encounter Diziet Sma's arguments with Zakalwe about the "morality of intervention vs non-intervention" from Use of Weapons, or GCU's Grey Area' sense of justice and its implacable execution from Excession as well as quite a few other similar tidbits. Archive 2009-09-01
  • All, and I do mean all, this veteran postman is providing in 20 minutes of play these days is a handful of rebounds. USATODAY.com - Running (and screening and defending) on empty
  • They also failed to give live coverage to yesterday's drumhead service attended by 6,000 Royal Navy veterans and hosted by Brian Hanrahan and Kate Adie.
  • We have a veteran engraver here.
  • Miss Julie C. Gauthier had on exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition, a full-length portrait, true to life, of a colored man, "Pony," a veteran wood-sawer of History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)
  • In addition, HBO have added a Game of Thrones-centric subsite and forum to their main website and confirmed that a veteran Dexter director, Brian Kirk, will be handling two episodes of the first season. Archive 2010-06-01
  • Yes, the veteran archer, as Elliot calls her; and Mr. Faulkner says, if she appears in character at all, it must be as Queen Elizabeth herself dancing a stately pavise to the sound of the little fiddle. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
  • The brunette beauty was spotted canoodling with the veteran actor, who is 20 years her senior, at a party in Los Angeles..
  • Being a veteran buys you no credibility and no respect.
  • Veteran extras warn neophytes to beware the purges.
  • The Nolan family, including Roger, who was born after his father went to Vietnam, traveled to Maryland for the Silverdocs Festival last week and was crushed to discover upon their very first trip to Washington D.C. that McKinley Nolan, because he is classified as a defector, is not among those 58,000 plus names included on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Ashley Wren Collins: The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan: Must-See Vietnam Feature Doc Asks All the Right Questions
  • The supporting roles are no cardboard cut-outs either with a memorable gaggle of characters like the war veteran arcade owner and Taeko's upbeat girlfriends.
  • Veteran runner Marie will be running alongside a number of staff from Bury Hospice, for whom she is raising money.
  • The exhibit was spotlighted by Phoenix-area media because of an angry protest March 24 by veterans groups.
  • As part of that, veterans will be visiting schools to talk about their experiences.
  • The veteran hardliner has been droning on about her political burnout for years, and has also long had to live with open speculation that her husband is an intelligence agent on the payroll of the French government.
  • The attack was the culmination of a week of harassment of the newspaper, starting with a demonstration by war veterans on Tuesday in which journalists were assaulted and heavy iron bolts were fired from catapults through office windows.
  • Schiller, 'said the veteran garreteer, in writing afterwards to Gleim, The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
  • OUR war veterans traumatised by combat stress need all the help they can get. The Sun
  • During an ill-natured Senate hearing on the treatment of Vietnam veterans he and another senator found themselves in violent disagreement.
  • Nothing of the drama's revitalization via cancer would have come as any surprise to veterans of "thirtysomething," Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz's long-running, long-ago creation, in which a lead character endured a bout with ovarian cancer that would make national news. Aging Well at the Top
  • Pollock, the veteran actor Ed Harris's directorial debut, is a mass-audience movie, not a peer-reviewed treatise, and so it's not fair to pick at historical inaccuracies or elisions.
  • This follows one year of unrest during which self-styled war veterans raided farms and businesses.
  • Veterans actually look forward to the postseason because the grind of the regular season gives way to a college season, in a sense.
  • And a lot of these veterans that I have written about said it made a man out of me, or a young woman would say I went from being a giddy teenager to being a mature woman overnight.
  • It is understood that the veteran reporter had a heart attack.
  • Moreover, while the Czechs are a seasoned, veteran team — older than the U.S. team on average — not a single Czech player has competed in the World Cup. The First Cup is the Deepest
  • Phobos ( Human ): An experienced veteran, he led the invasion of the demon - haunted tunnels of Phobos.
  • As part of Salute the Veterans activities, vets also attended a reception at Old Parliament House, ecumenical services and reunion dinners.
  • Nevertheless, to rehash a time-worn axiom, there's an exception to every rule and that holds true for baseball records even when comparing those for rookies to ones established by veterans.
  • A 20-year veteran of the peace movement, he had learned one of the inviolable laws of the left: thou shalt not fraternize with big business.
  • Veterans of one of the landmark battles of the Second World War were reunited in York at the weekend to commemorate the campaign.
  • Bush appointed Edward J. Derwinski as the first Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  • Clinton Portis is second to none among running backs in blitz pick-up, but the nine-year veteran is sidelined at least four to six weeks because of a third-degree groin tear. Packers' blitz will be a challenge for Torain and company
  • Most amazingly, at 78, the veteran bluesman doesn't understand the concept of slowing down or resting on his laurels.
  • Roxburgh is now a veteran on the international scene.
  • His defenestration was coldly abrupt, and in his place, the Football Association resurrected a veteran manager and former England star for seven games.
  • Just listen to the white noise and stare at the carnage, which begins with what starts out as a well-coordinated assault on a Bolivian drug lord's compound by a Special Forces unit led by "Colonel" Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a veteran so grizzled that his grizzles have grizzles. Politics
  • High rents force out Veteran Clubs in New York City.
  • The record may well do for these assorted old-timers what the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon achieved for veteran Cuban musicians such as Ibrahim Ferrer.
  • The news has stunned war veterans in the city - and has sparked an urgent plea for more volunteers to come forward.
  • Two of the Americans, Jean and Scott Adam, had been sailing around the world on their yacht since 2004 and were joined for this journey by Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle, veteran sailors who had previously circumnavigated the globe in their own vessel. Somali Pirates Kill Four U.S. Hostages
  • Now there was a veteran aboard who because his years began to disqualify him for more active work had been recently assigned duty as mainmastman in his watch, looking to the gear belayed at the rail roundabout that great spar near the deck. Billy Budd
  • Veteran jazzmen like Charles Lloyd are frequently described as "saxophonist-composer-bandleaders," but in Mr. Lloyd's case that order is incorrect. Freddie, Jacky, Charlie and the Doc
  • Higher Ground, an amazing nonprofit that taps into a network of resources to aid long-term rehabilitative efforts for veterans with traumatic brain injuries, blindness, severe burns, and much more. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Marco Reininger, a veteran and political science major at Columbia, wrote on The Huffington Post that, despite what he called the childish catcalls that greeted Maschek, the institution as a whole is neither as elitist nor as condescending as the media firestorm suggests. ROTC's return to universities a bumpy road
  • For the veteran searchers seeking signs of the long-lost South Island kokako, a valley east of Puysegur Point in Fiordland National Park sounds like a breakthrough. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Herman Vukusic , is a psychiatrist and an expert on veteran cases.
  • His life and death has nothing to do with any war anywhere and his attempting to link Michaels death to our soldiers is an insult to them and all veterans. Rep. King on Jackson: 'There's nothing good about this guy'
  • Gabrielle told Annie that veterans were very keen to share their experience and that they were all fantastic.
  • A chance to see the veteran folkie and accomplished storyteller. Times, Sunday Times
  • Or dowe want to keep our investments in everything else – like educationand medical research; a strong military and care for our veterans? State of the union 2012: full transcript of President Obama's speech

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