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...This story is rife with ironies," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "In the last couple of years, there have been quite a few women and minorities in the presidential detail - an incredibly elite and dangerous position. These people are all willing to take a bullet for the President." Only when those same agents try to move into the managerial positions, adds Branegan, do they encounter resistance. Agency figures appear to bear out the allegations: Black agents make up just over 10 percent of the Secret Service ranks but less than 5 percent of those in management positions. Frustrated...
...economy roared into the 21st century like a bullet train last quarter, and the vibrations it created were rattling the china on Wall Street last week. Stock prices plunged on fears of higher inflation and rising interest rates, but neither of these variables seems likely to derail the economy this year or possibly even next...
...ramifications of Jordan's selection of former Bullet (it really was a better name!) Darrell Walker as head coach have yet to unfold. But Wednesday night proved promising, with the Wizards nabbing a win over the Timberwolves...
...Working as a Let's Go r-dub can be a dream come true, providing a free ticket to a far away land for a seven week trip with a daily stipend to boot. And a summer writing gig for Let's Go can be an attractive bullet on any Harvard resume. Let's Go requires its writers to front the money for their tickets, however, since r-dubs have been known to bail. "Every year there are people who don't follow through on their eight weeks of research," Stone says...
...trial against those four police officers, the cause of death is not up for debate; instead, both the defense and the prosecution will focus on the officers' intent when they pulled their weapons. There's some damning evidence working against the police: Diallo's body was riddled with 19 bullets of the 41 fired in total. And although the officers say they stopped firing well before Diallo fell to the ground, a pathologist hired by the prosecution found a bullet that had traveled from the sole of Diallo's foot up through his leg - a difficult shot to make when...