Badge of honour
Well, hardly
ONE problem with political manoeuvring in Washington, DC, is that it usually ends up squashing somebody. There have been few better examples of Beltway bluster than the great beret controversy—the storm following the revelation that American soldiers would supposedly have to don Chinese headgear. Now the tiny town of Cabot, in the Arkansas Delta, has been hit by one of the gusts.
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