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...stations. “We are fighting a war against people who have as their objective the overthrow of the United States government,” Romney said in the statement. “Given that kind of threat, we have to adjust our homeland security strategies to confront it.” The MBTA briefly implemented the system two years ago to address possible security threats to the Democratic National Convention. A MBTA spokesman, Joe Pesaturo, said that the policy was well-received at that time. “People have said over and over that safety is their...
...number on the side; the lower the number, the closer the connection to the deceased. The mothers of the girls will wear black for a year. The schoolhouse will likely be burned down, so there won?t be a structure that, just to look at it, forces them to confront their nightmares. But these rituals will be replaced very soon with the traditions of autumn - harvest is looming; the fields need to be cut. They?ll be returning to work quicker than most of us could imagine...
...messages in moderate-sounding pronouncements. So, still no U.S. visa. "Is this Administration now going to say, 'We got bad information, he can come now'?" asks Ramadan. Whatever the reason for the rejection, one French counter-terrorism official suggests it indicates the U.S. is still confused about how to confront the jihadist threat. "The Americans gave visas to the plotters of Sept. 11, but today refuse to give one to Tariq Ramadan," the official says. "What's wrong with that picture...
...body of expert opinion that our climate is changing. For Lloyd's of London, ignoring that was not an option," says Darragh Grey, senior manager of the 360 Risk Project at the storied high-risk underwriters and author of a new report on the insurance industry's failure to confront climate change...
People have different strengths and weaknesses, and my strength was not the ability to confront people. My strength was much more in the ability to evaluate where business was going, and getting it to grow by encouraging all the people in the company to make the decision pretty fast about who should stay and who should go. Because when you don't make those decisions, nobody knows better that you're not making the sensible decision fast enough than the people who are working in the company...