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Afghan warlord and opium cultivator Haji Bashar Noorzai could be an intelligence source the U.S. needs to combat terrorism, but he's in jail on drug charges. He has offered to help, and as the wars on both drugs and terrorism rage on, readers debated the wisdom of his incarceration...
...long as we can find loopholes and make exceptions, maybe it's not so bad that we make Presidents try to fit a mold. In a democratic republic, there must be some community of feeling between the leaders and the led. Warriors have traditionally found it in combat, despite class differences. But the mild norms of politics are a functional equivalent in peace and in war. Our first President set the standard. The Rules of Civility, the etiquette primer that George Washington copied as a teenager, began with this admonition: "Every action done in company ought to be done with...
...combat the proclivity for the potato-based products, Dershowitz proposed a nine-step program that would focus on sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts), “a sweet food that closely resembles the hamantash...
...more practical level, turning arrests into gung-ho combat raids increases the risk for everyone involved. There are no federal training requirements for SWAT teams—despite the Fed’s role in distributing used army equipment—and therefore training is erratic. More importantly, even disciplined cops can make a mistake when placed in a high-intensity, low-light environment that demands split-second decisions. Arming them with assault rifles and delusions of military grandeur only increases the chance of creating a violent, deadly situation...
...have the power of the vote to influence city legislators, nor are they traditionally the group with the greatest assets to influence the decision.”AN IMPERMANENT SOLUTIONThe future of the restrictions is still unknown. According to Mehigan, they are intended as a temporary means to combat the city’s public safety concerns. “This is meant to be temporary,” she says. “The city is not looking to hurt any of these businesses.”She says that the clubs, police department, and City Hall are working...