Word: collared
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...Ridge has the square-jawed profile and can-do resume--blue-collar background, Harvard, staff sergeant in Vietnam--to reassure even the most jittery parent contemplating a family vacation in Orlando. Ridge will need all that and more. He has not yet assumed his new post, which does not require a Senate vote. Officials have "red tagged" his security clearance, hoping he can get the O.K. in two weeks, not the eight months that some Administration officials have been waiting. In a series of White House meetings this week, Ridge started to divide his responsibilities into three baskets. The first...
Crescent Street is nestled in a corner off Oxford Street, just past Lesley College and Agassiz Elementary School., a ten-minute walk from the Square. In the afternoon, squealing children play outside. A black-and-white housecat with a silver collar wanders skittishly down the tree-lined sidewalk. Two houses sport large American flags. Jenkins lived at 22 Crescent Street, a well-kept gray house with a white staircase and simple red door that had been his home for nearly two decades...
...still too early to think about anything else. Then I heard about my cousin. He is 13 years old. He immigrated to Toronto three years ago from Bangladesh. Last Wednesday, as he walked down his school’s hallway, three older students grabbed him by the collar, threw him against his locker and proceeded to punch him. “Oh look, a Muslim boy! You gonna bomb...
...shopping bags full of blazers, shoes and pants, for patients whose clothes had been burned off. Edward Cardinal Egan led a team of priests to begin giving last rites. At one point he emerged from the emergency room, wearing blue hospital scrubs. His purple robes peeked out at the collar, and over one of his blue rubber gloves he had placed his enormous gold cardinal's ring. He said, quite formally, "I am amazed at the goodness of our police and our fire fighters and our hospital people...
...shopping bags full of blazers, shoes and pants, for patients whose clothes had been burned off. Edward Cardinal Egan led a team of priests to begin giving last rites. At one point he emerged from the emergency room, wearing blue hospital scrubs. His purple robes peeked out at the collar, and over one of his blue rubber gloves he had placed his enormous gold cardinal's ring. He said, quite formally, "I am amazed at the goodness of our police and our fire fighters and our hospital people...