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...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...
Some in the audience reported overhearing the sheriff remark that the staff must have been made in Connecticut...
Paul Bremer strode into the sweltering Iraqi capital of Baghdad last week, sounding to all the world like the new sheriff in town--albeit one wearing a suit and tie. For a city racked by instability and violence, President Bush's newly appointed civilian chief promised a new, no-nonsense approach to law and order. Referring to the thousands of criminals Saddam Hussein freed before the war, the seasoned diplomat and counterterrorism expert declared, "It's time we put these people back in jail...
...rescuers, he used his remaining arm to rappel 50 to 75 ft. to the canyon floor. He had to hike another seven miles to find help. Bandaged and bleeding profusely, Ralston was walking with two other hikers who had encountered him when Sergeant Mitch Vetere of the Emery County Sheriff's Department spotted the group from a helicopter. Once aboard, Ralston asked for water but was remarkably stoic. "He was drained but coherent," says Vetere. "He seemed pretty calm for a guy who had just cut his own arm off." Authorities tried to retrieve the arm later that...
...with is about two miles away from the actual golf course, somewhere on Washington Road. We’re not allowed near Augusta National, of course, thanks to a recent ruling by federal judge “Dudley” H. Bowen upholding the power of the local sheriff to boot protestors as far as he needs...