Word: posts
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...Before we leave, we take a picture together with the hiking club, a baker’s dozen falling over each other to crowd around the wooden post. “Mt. Cising Main Peak. 1120 M,” it says...
Bratton stated several reasons for leaving aside from completing the goals he began with: the challenge of the new post as well as monetary gain and the chance to influence policing approaches on a global scale. He and his wife's also want to return to New York; and Bratton says he wants to live closer to his 83-year-old father in Boston...
However, given Bratton's perceived ambitions, some have wondered whether the move might be motivated by other reasons, including a desire to eventually take on a national law enforcement role. When asked by TIME if part of the reason he took the post was to be better prepared should such an opportunity come his way, Bratton denied it, saying "not at all." Though he adds, "I think I'm adequately prepared after 40 years [in law enforcement] for any national role." In answer to whether he could foresee returning to public service, Bratton said there was "real potential for that...
...With levels of violence having been tamped down to a degree manageable by Iraqi forces and with Iraq's sectarian and ethnic political divisions having become an apparently intractable feature of post-Saddam political life that no amount of U.S. cajoling appears likely to resolve, this may be as good as it gets in Iraq. And if so, why should American soldiers hang around until 2011 in a war costing America in the region of $12 billion a month and whose U.S. casualty count is nearing 4,500 dead and 30,000 wounded? (See TIME's 10 Questions for nuclear...
Washington Post • Mouthpiece Theater, an attempt at humor as lame and unfunny as anything that has ever existed on the Internet, is mercy-killed by, but not before being brilliantly and brutally savaged...