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Some in the audience reported overhearing the sheriff remark that the staff must have been made in Connecticut...
...sheriff picked up the ornament, replaced it and landed the third blow to the platform amidst laughter from the crowd...
...high sheriff of Middlesex County, who traditionally calls the exercises to order by banging a silver-tipped staff three times on the steps of Memorial Church, kicked off the event inauspiciously...
Kerik is nothing if not upbeat about the direction in which Iraq is heading. He does have a precedent to go by, having helped Mayor Rudolph Giuliani achieve impressive reductions in New York City crime. Baghdad's new sheriff acknowledges that his current job is an even tougher undertaking. "Someone driving down the street, pulling out a gun and doing a drive-by shooting is one thing," he notes. "Here, somebody rolls down their back window, pulls out an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] and blows up the entire precinct. It's a slightly different ball game...
After the speeches and conferral of degrees, the high sheriff closed the ceremony by pounding his staff three times. This time, he held the knob securely in place...