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...foreign oil companies, their workers and the Nigerian soldiers who protect them - not, as in the past, for money, but as part of an armed campaign. Unless there is change, they say, there will be war. The government and oil companies "don't listen to words," Delta militia member Richard, 27, told Time three weeks ago, the dull roar of a gas flare in the background. "So perhaps they will understand the language of the gun." The nascent insurgency has made Nigeria's oil fields among the most dangerous in the world - and helped push global oil prices past...
...more violent that it really belonged in another country altogether. By the time Katrina hit, most law-enforcement types in the city had come to an unpleasant conclusion: no amount of arrests would stanch the murder rate. Somewhere along the way, despite the best efforts of techno-cop Chief Richard Pennington in the 1990s, despite tens of thousands of arrests for drug and quality-of-life crimes, violence had become normalized...
...Bush White House. "You can create all kinds of early-warning systems once you understand the patterns. You can tell the computers: You tell me when they make the following kinds of phone calls, because that tells me I've got to do something to disrupt an attack." Says Richard Falkenrath, who was deputy homeland security adviser in the White House during Bush's first term: "I was a consumer of link analysis that may well have been informed by this collection effort. I didn't know how they were getting it, but I'm glad they were getting...
...rookie on the circuit, and doesn't he know it! He's got drive, heaven knows, but no perspective. Who needs friends, or a pit crew? He's a one-man show! Ka-chow! Lightning's main rivals in the movie's opening race are "the King" (racing legend Richard Petty), who's going for one last win before he retires, and a dirty-driving mug named Chick (Michael Keaton), who's so rotten that one of his sponsor decals reads htB, for Hostile Takeover Bank...
...other faculty members are Lisa Berkman of the School of Public Health, Richard Fallon of the Law School, Amy Hollywood of the Divinity School, Alex Krieger of the Design School, William A. Sahlman of the Business School, Judith D. Singer of the Graduate School of Education, Robert Stavins of the Kennedy School of Government, and Christopher T. Walsh of Harvard Medical School...