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...Oscar Peterson, An Oscar Peterson Christmas...
...Sunni militant group called the Omar Brigade, illustrates the U.S.'s dilemmas. The neighborhood had suffered months of killing between Sunnis and Shi'ites before U.S. forces found a solution: to make the murders stop, keep the cops, who were overwhelmingly Shi'ite, out. Lieut. Colonel Jeffrey Peterson, the U.S. troop commander for Mekanik, says, "Whenever we would talk to locals about [the violence], they always implicated the national police as starting it. I could never prove it. But the bottom line was--whether it was true or false--the people did not trust the national police." In early October...
...your latte. Six years ago, Starbucks moved from manual to semiautomatic espresso machines. The quality was more consistent, but the real reason for the switch was that an employee needed 24 fewer seconds to draw an espresso--a double shot of productivity. "People struggled with it," says Silvia Peterson, director of store operations engineering. The new machine was at odds with the Starbuckian notion of a "handcrafted" beverage. An ice dispenser that would have eliminated time spent scooping was rejected as a step too far. "It was big and QSR-like," says Peterson--QSR being an abbreviation for quick-serve...
...return the amount exceeded to the UC Election Commission in the form of equivalent campaign goods, such as posters and flyers, according to Allen. Petersen’s campaign has spent $126.69 thus far, leaving them under $13 to spend for the last two days of the election. But Peterson said he is not worried. “We knew there were stricter Election Commission rules this year, so we intentionally spent very little,” Petersen wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “Instead, we are focusing on costless grassroots effort: I find that students respond...
...They have very few problems with transferring or being admitted,” Deep Springs President F. Ross Peterson writes in an e-mail (in keeping with the rustic theme, the college’s phones were down at press time). “Their biggest problem after transferring is trying to get involved and not become a number...