Marine recruit’s test of endurance
At an obstacle course set amid sage and prickly pears, Marine recruits lined up to don gas masks and swing on a rope across a gravel patch representing a blown-out...
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Challenge, hardship and pride
This couldn't be our son Sergei. Perhaps the Marine Corps had found an impostor to phone us, some Russian-speaking sergeant whose voice had been sanded to a rasp by chain-smoking,...
Surprise, I just joined the Marines
My BlackBerry buzzed as I was sipping merlot at a reception in downtown Chicago. I had missed two calls from home. I found a quiet spot and called, and my...
`I’ll be on my guard until next week’
Two students lounged in shorts and sandals, a harried mother pushed a cart overloaded with suitcases, and a pair of middle-aged men bent against the weight of the duffel bags...
Ukraine’s Yushchenko envisions middle course
Ukraine can pursue a path of economic and political integration with Europe and the U.S. without forsaking its long-standing relationship with the Kremlin, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday during...
Immigration records shed light on Lefkow killer’s past
Bart Ross had worked as an electrical engineer at a factory in southern Poland for nearly a decade when he ran afoul of communist authorities and began trying to find...
Priest jailed in Greece left church here adrift
Watching satellite TV news reports from the old country at their homes in Chicago, members of a Greek Orthodox parish on the Northwest Side were shocked to recognize the young,...
New breed of bikers rides into danger zone
Patrick Thompson says he doesn't drink, smoke marijuana or snort cocaine. Instead he gets his highs racing his Honda motorcycle at speeds of more than 150 miles an hour, or...
4 lives collide, tears remain
Brett Harman and Kevin McCann were so close people often mistook them for brothers. When one of the former wrestlers from the Chicago area was in trouble, the other came...
Parents often not ready for needy foreign kids
Craig and Erin Fowles wondered what they had gotten themselves into as they returned from the central Russian city of Izhevsk last spring. The McHenry couple were traveling with two...