Word: quits
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...city-hall office. It's closing in on 8 o'clock the night before the three-day July 4 weekend. He has just wrapped up a meeting with his police director and a conference call with the local electric company, but Booker, 40, doesn't know when to quit working. Or talking. Some politicians ramble on in paragraphs; Booker pontificates in pages. Chapters, even. "That's not playing to my sense of purpose," he says of the White House position. "And right now, I do believe, as immodest as it sounds, I'm the right guy at the right time...
Despite the strong law-enforcement team the mayor put in place, Booker's staff begged him to quit harping on crime. After all, violence, especially in a city with Newark's harrowing history, is awfully hard to control. "It's very ballsy," Newark city councilman Oscar James II says of Booker's laser focus on reducing murders. "Some dude decides to go on some crime spree, starts taking people out, and then what? It happens." (See pictures of an ammunitions manufacturer...
...Vinas became a licensed truck driver but quit his job and left home in 2007, saying he wanted to study Islam and Arabic. His parents had no idea where he went...
...Quit: Though perhaps half of Italy would love to see him disappear from public life, this is one strategy few would bet on. At 72, the flamboyant billionaire world leader still seems convinced that he can be both a flamboyant billionaire and a world leader...
...Brown in a Bind it is true that Gordon Brown is running out of time (June 22). The writing on the wall is clear. It may be better for him to quit early so that a new government can come in with new ideas and plans. Jacob Sahayam, Trivandrum, India