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...capital killed 52 people and the morning after a second, failed bombing attempt. The shooting has already been the subject of two reports by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which found some fault with the handling of the original operation and the response to it among top brass. A separate investigation concluded that there was insufficient evidence to charge individual officers, but prosecutors launched a case against the Met for breaching health and safety laws. A court later found the Met guilty and levied a fine of more than $350,000, plus costs of $770,000. An inquest into...
...gays would hurt unit cohesion, discipline and morale. Earlier this month a pro-gay University of California think tank, the Michael D. Palm Center, issued a report authored by three retired generals and a retired admiral that studied that question for more than a year. The retired brass couldn't find any evidence that allowing gays to be open would hurt the military, but they did find some evidence that kicking gays out hurts. One heterosexual officer who just got back from Iraq told the authors that "friction resulting from the prosecution of service members found...
...that recently played both London's high-tone Barbican theater and the rather more déclassé Glastonbury Festival. And even though the music is certainly not from round these parts, its hooks and grooves are ones any veteran soul-boy or jazzer can relate to: funky brass, swirling organ, growling sax, rippling congas, ecstatic vocals - this is not the sound of a national culture struggling to make itself heard over the global noise of pop. Rather, these are artists who 40 years ago itched to be part of it, who dressed like doo-wop boys, played funk, jazz...
...visit to Jerusalem in 1924, when still a prince, Selassie had been charmed by a marching band of forty Armenian children, exiled orphans of the Ottoman genocide, and arranged to adopt them as his court musicians. The boys were tutored by European music teachers and pretty soon brass bands were busting out all over: the Police Orchestra, the Imperial Bodyguard Band, the Army Band, the Selassie Theater Orchestra or the Municipality of Addis Band. After Italy's brief occupation ended in 1941 - Ethiopia is the only country in Africa that has never been colonized - the country began to open...
Harvard's top brass has at least one strong tie to Citigroup already: former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, a fellow on the Harvard Corporation, the University's seven-member governing body, is both a board member and high-ranking executive at the bank. Last November, Rubin made one of his infrequent public appearances at Harvard in a speech at the Business School...