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...Weis tapped a former FBI agent - and one of his best friends - to be his chief of staff. But within weeks, Daley installed one of his own staffers into the job. "Translation: Mayor Daley wants his own eyes and ears at the police department," quipped a Chicago Sun-Times columnist. In a recent TIME interview, Weis said of Daley, "He's never dictated who I should hire, and who I should promote." But Weis still knows that, in the end, Daley is the boss. Meanwhile, the new police superintendent has proposed that his officers submit to annual physical fitness tests...
...government agency--and not one sponsored by a company--should give you an unbiased number that will help identify exactly where you can go greener. "Global warming is an abstract idea that is hard for people to connect to," says Bob Schildgen, the Sierra Club's environmental-advice columnist. "It's good to start at the basic level, with real numbers...
...killed. Nutter, who is black, was elected mayor last year in part on his promise to reduce the killings in a city weary of constant gunplay. "The rise in homicides makes it really clear that [the police] are operating under a level of stress," says longtime Philadelphia Daily News columnist Elmer Smith. "That doesn't necessarily cause the community to give them a pass, but certainly causes them to be less inclined to leap to the conclusion that they are an occupying army, that these people don't care about us. It's that dangerous out there...
Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
...most presumptuous of the chattering classes, columnist Adam Goldenberg ’08, made no apologies for his “political, even partisan stance” of urging President Faust to declaim against DADT at the commissioning ceremony. The military’s discriminatory policy, to Goldenberg, clearly overrides any respect for prudence or decorum. Evidently, the slightest support of ROTC without an accompanying jeremiad against DADT signifies complicity in oppression...