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Officers are wary with reason. "They're scum," says a man clad in Celtic gear at a St. Patrick's Day parade. But opinions are shifting. Sinn Fein removed the last major obstacle to collaborative policing in January when it voted to support the PSNI. People still see cops as cops, of course. Draped in the Republic of Ireland's tricolor just after the parade, a young couple gripes about officers clearing out bars right at closing time. "But," says the man, "we wouldn't have known anyone in the police in the old days. Now we have friends...
...still a stock picker's market," says Nick Bayley, head of trading services at the LSE. "This isn't a market for widows and orphans." Investors prepared to do their homework are bullish. "The prospects for AIM look as good or better than they've ever looked," says Patrick Evershed, a fund manager at New Star Asset Management in London. Vycon's Aoun encourages firms to consider AIM, but with a caveat. "This is no minor undertaking," he says. "Be ready for some serious work." After all, growing up is hard...
When John Thompson III, coach of the Georgetown University men's basketball team, took over the moribund program there three years ago, a persistent question hovered over him, the way Patrick Ewing once loomed over point guards when Thompson's father, Hall of Famer John Thompson Jr., coached the Hoyas during their 1980s glory years. Could he really import the Princeton Offense, the precise, pass-happy basketball style that Thompson absorbed as both player and coach at the Ivy League school, to a team like Georgetown, which competes in the high-powered Big East conference? Consider the Hoyas' most notable...
...country could augment backdoor passes with individual skills. A trip to the Final Four perhaps? Georgetown's offense has clicked, with Thompson expertly mixing finesse with freedom. For example, before Green's game winner against Vandy, Thompson gave the NBA-bound Big East MVP spare instructions: Quickly look for Patrick Ewing Jr. (yes, son of the former Georgetown center) cutting to the basket. If Ewing isn't open? "Just score," Thompson told Green...
...weekend to prepare their lines of questioning for the Sampson testimony, poring over his and Gonzales' written and oral responses to their prior requests for information and comparing them with the thousands of e-mails released by the White House and Justice department relating to the firings. Committee chairman Patrick Leahy and New York Senator Charles Schumer have taken the lead on the investigation and are expected to carry the majority of the attack on Sampson, with freshman Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, himself a former U.S. Attorney, playing a supporting role...