1. A career Foreign Service officer and Middle East expert, Burns combines boyish charm and good looks with the verbal precision and politesse Christopher values. 2. A former national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan and career Army officer, Powell had a finely tuned sense of politics. 3. After the couple divorced, the children were adopted by their stepfather, a career Army officer, and took his name. 4. Clinton also intends to nominate Nicholas Burns, a career Foreign Service officer and former State Department spokesman, to be ambassador to Greece. 5. Her father was a career Army officer. 6. He wanted to be like his father, Nathan Palmer, a career Army officer, who is a retired major. 7. His father, a sensitive nonconformist who wrote and taught literature, became a career Army officer. 8. Keyes, the youngest of five children, is the son of a career Army officer who moved the family repeatedly through Italy and the United States. 9. Laura stayed with her mother, who then married a career Army officer. 10. Roy, a Bush family friend, was a career Foreign Service officer under presidents of both parties. |