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...Treasury Secretary, what was your greatest strength and your greatest weakness? -Debra Turner, New York City I would think my greatest strength was decisiveness. My biggest weakness was public speaking. I never was able to let the American people know that the bailout was not about the banks but about Main Street and how a collapse of the financial system would be devastating...
...Dwayne Betts may be one of those not-so-bad guys, sentenced to nine years in an adult prison on a first offense at age 16. It's hard to know if a less severe punishment would have worked. Betts hijacked a stranger's car at gunpoint, which is a dangerous and depraved thing to do. But he also showed signs of promise, having earned his high school diploma a year ahead of schedule. Betts gradually learned to navigate the violence and boredom of prison and emerged in 2006 ready to launch a respectable life, enrolling in college, getting married...
...hide from superiors. In late December 2005, for example, Green had a one-on-one meeting about his mental state with the brigade's commander, Colonel Todd Ebel. A colonel personally counseling a private is, it is worth noting, an exceedingly unusual event. During their talk, Green wanted to know, "Why can't we just shoot them all?" A few days before that, Green had met with Lieut. Colonel Karen Marrs, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, for a combat-stress counseling session. During that meeting, Green declared several times that he was obsessed with killing Iraqis. (One entry that Marrs scribbled...
...know, that is the case,” said Daniel T. Larson ’98, a Kirkland tutor who lives in DeWolfe housing, in response to whether House residents will be occupying 20 DeWolfe Street...
...It’s amazing to me now to look back 25 years and know how difficult a thing it was to think about being out and just how terrifying it was,” he said...