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There was fear that Clemmons could pop up anywhere. Tips and sightings came in from all over. Someone believed they'd seen Clemmons getting off a bus in the University District, home to the University of Washington, in the northeast part of the city. Another call came in suggesting that Clemmons had been spotted at Jose Rizal park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of south Seattle. Officers were dispatched to bus and train stations. As the search grew more frantic, frustration and fury over the murders grew too. In a demonstration of restrained anguish at a midmorning press conference during...
...Clemmons - or keeping them behind bars and away from harming the innocent. The search for Clemmons consumed everyone. The steady drone of helicopters could be heard for miles around the Leschi neighborhood in east Seattle, where agents believed Clemmons was hiding in a relative's house. Streets surrounding the home were blocked off and residents turned away; people who lived in the area were told to stay indoors and keep their homes locked up. But when the cops broke into the targeted house, the suspect was not to be found...
President Barack Obama has tied his decision to order 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to a pledge that they'll start returning home in 2011. But the President's West Point speech Dec. 1 was mute on his plans for the growing Afghan army, which remains the best - some would say only - way to bring home American personnel. His vagueness on the question of increasing the Afghan forces was understandable: the U.S. and its allies have already boosted target troop levels for the Afghan army four times, and the U.S. commander there, General Stanley McChrystal, wants the target...
While President Obama is setting timetables for Afghanistan, hoping to start bringing U.S. troops home by 2011, Mackenzie's words note that the very concept of deadlines is largely foreign to Afghans. "Time is not seen as a valuable resource in Afghan society," he wrote. "Correspondingly, the use of calendars at all levels is virtually nonexistent...
...live alone, I don't have a boyfriend, and I have my gay best friend staying over most nights. I'm a recluse. I don't go out, I stay home with my dogs and friends ... I do not have sex with celebrities, and I have not had an affair with Tiger Woods." -New York Post, Dec. 1, 2009 (Read a 2000 cover story on Tiger Woods, "How the Best Got Better: The Game of Risk...