Word: rogerism
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...first day in office in 1975, Cianci got a call saying monkeys from the dilapidated zoo had escaped onto I-95; in March 1999 the Roger Williams Park Zoo was named one of the nation's best by Travel & Leisure Family magazine. That's in part because Cianci mastered the art of federal grantsmanship and leveraged municipal bonds. "The biggest trick," he confides, "is to use other people's money...
AFGHANISTAN Secret of the Caves British troops uncovered a major weapons cache left behind by fleeing Taliban fighters - but no sign of combatants. The lack of enemy fighters emboldened British commander Roger Lane to say the war in Afghanistan was "all but won." The troops later used 100 kg of plastic explosive to blow up the four caves, which contained up to 40,000 mortar shells, rockets and grenades...
...signs are good. In 1986, the last time the Red Sox reached the World Series, it was thanks to the arms of the now-reviled Roger Clemens and his strong staff. With the Yankees in transition, it just might happen again. But that can only be the case if the new Red Sox management learn from Harry Frazee’s mistake: nothing is ever worth more than quality pitching. With any luck for Boston fans, No-No D. Lowe can soon kill off the ghost of No No Nanette...
...Marines found previously undetected caches of ammunition and light arms. Radios, documents, maps and computer discs were found in caves and on the bodies of dead al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters, some of them booby-trapped. "There is evidence that the area had been reinfiltrated" since Anaconda, says Brigadier Roger Lane, commander of 3 Commando...
...ways in which writers Chap Taylor and Michael Tolkin escalate the conflict often bend plausibility, and director Roger Michell sometimes kicks the melodrama into fantasyland. But at heart this parable, well acted by a veteran cast, is one of those serious "gerund movies" (Pushing Tin, Falling Down) about the scars we leave on the folks we dash past in our rush to do our job. Their world disintegrates, and all we notice, for a second, is the puff of smoke behind...