Word: joint
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...When asked if the State Department should reconsider its reliance on such companies to secure U.S. personnel, Rice said not yet. "It's very early to try to do that kind of analysis, I think." In the meantime, the State Department has just announced the formation of a new, joint U.S.-Iraqi commission that will handle details of the Blackwater episode, an apparent attempt to defuse the growing controversy. Further details are expected to come from the State Department soon - in particular whether the commission will also deal with the more general problem of thousands of other private security personnel...
...weary cynicism. It is a kind of acceptance that does not vitiate his desire to see justice done. This is, I think, a great performance by one of the great movie minimalists. And Haggis has provided him with a perfectly matched context, recording without overt commentary the strip-joint, hooker-ridden town that exists to serve the needs of soldiers too young for thought to govern appetites, the kind of place where a convenience store clerk cheerfully works topless. Is the movie an analogy of Iraq? Not perfectly, but well enough. Does it say something about contemporary American cheesiness...
Upon returning to the Af-Am Department, Morgan will hold a tenured professorship, while Bobo, who will also hold a joint appointment in sociology, will become the Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, a new professorship that Gates said was created for Bobo. Morgan and Bobo were not immediately available for comment...
...days passed, I began shamelessly showing the letter to everyone I encountered, as if I were a strip-joint leafleteer on a New York City street corner...
...file a story for TIME.com on Bush's surprise visit to Iraq. I'd rather have had something on CIA detainees or the last remnants of Chagossian villages. Maybe next time. But the dateline for the story I did file was quickly mangled in blogosphere reprints into a joint byline that read...