First is our unbreakable rule that every candidate must be a trained trooper, blooded under fire, a veteran of combat drops. No other army in history has stuck to this rule, although some came close. Most great military schools of the past — Saint Cyr, West Point, Sandhurst, Colorado Springs didn’t even pretend to follow it; they accepted civilian boys, trained them, commissioned them, sent them out with no battle experience to command men... and sometimes discovered too late that this smart young ‘officer’ was a fool, a poltroon, or a hysteric.

In February 2022, she helped plan an event with an employer that recruits heavily from Georgetown, a flashy gathering with free food and branded swag. Prepandemic the presentation would draw over 100 attendees. Last year, only 40 or so students attended.

Mista Fresh he gots a mind just like Marx's, and someday, as long as we got a lotta white niggas promotin' the black niggas, he gonna be famous and be admired by everybody, especially by all them mutha phuckin black nigga hoes doin all the f—kin.

The ship hulls as the billows flow; / And all aboard at ev'ry seel, / Like drunkards, on the hatches reel.