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DESPITE YOUR MUSICAL BACKGROUND, YOU OBVIOUSLY BROUGHT GREAT CARE TO THE RIDICULE OF THESE SINGERS...
...Some participants accused the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) - which originally opposed arming pilots - of designing a program so rule-bound and cumbersome that it was guaranteed to fail. At one point, according to pilots who talked to TIME on background, there was even talk of a mass walkout...
...addition, a day-and-a-half into the training, two of the pilots were bounced out, including one who previously transported nuclear weapons for the Air Force and is currently a union activist. They were told only that the decision was based on their background checks...
...Crimson that even in these years there was western television everywhere in the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR), although the authorities discouraged children from watching it. The East German public struggled to reconcile competing images of cold capitalism with the glamorous America of Hollywood films. Wechsler’s background provided him unique insights into the mysterious United States in politically isolated East Germany...
With his prestigious background in government and academia, Summers will have much to contribute as the task force considers the causes of the schism and makes recommendations for improving U.S.-European relations. It is encouraging to see a Harvard President descend from the ivory tower and engage highly pressing social issues as a public intellectual...