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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Due to the infinite wisdom I have gleaned from the past five and a half weeks here, I have come to find that many a life lesson can be drawn from the comedy “Arrested Development.” (A disclaimer: This might also be a result of the fact that I recently re-watched all three seasons.) If you’ve never experienced the glory of this show, read no further and go do it now. Not kidding, you’re missing out. And eliminating any possibility that we could...
...unarmed black men by police since Kelly has been commissioner, and there's been no reform of police procedure that I'm aware of. We had the case of a black teenage boy shot to death on the roof of his apartment - the officer was patrolling with his gun drawn and accidentally shot him. Has there ever been any discussion of whether officers should be patrolling with their guns drawn in city housing projects? The police commissioner is very skillful, as is the mayor, at distracting the public without making any fundamental reform...
...write a lot about your sexual experiences and the women you've been with. Does that make it hard for you to meet women now? Actually, women are often quite drawn to that sort of thing. A lot of women write me very nice notes about the sexual aspect of my writing, so I don't think that's a problem. Once I'm in the relationship with someone, then people don't really like what I write. That's why my next book is going to be called If You Know Me, Please Don't Read This...
...most anticipated case on its docket, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a group of white and Hispanic firefighters who sued after their passing scores on a promotion exam were thrown out because black applicants performed poorly on the test. The workplace-discrimination case, Ricci v. DeStefano, had drawn intense scrutiny because Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor had come to the opposite conclusion while sitting on a federal appeals court. The narrow 5-4 ruling, issued on the final day of the term, found that officials in New Haven, Conn., relied too heavily on "raw racial results" in deciding...
During his presidency, a lasting peace deal has been negotiated with insurgents in the tsunami-struck province of Aceh. Has also drawn praise for blunting the influence of the Jemaah Islamiah, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization, with a steady string of arrests and detentions...