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...Harvard's properties] are not joined to one another, so an officer traveling from the Kennedy School to Harvard Yard is a person dressed like a police officer, yet has no authority in the absence of a deputy sheriff appointment," says Frank M. Burns, the number two sheriff in Middlesex County...
...operations. That's the thinking, for example, in President Clinton's recent efforts to boost Nigeria as a regional policeman - while Washington is unlikely to send its own personnel into situations such as Sierra Leone, it may be prepared to create incentives for regional powers like Nigeria to play sheriff...
...Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor. Annan isn't opposed to these missions. He has the courage to order the U.N. in wherever it is needed. But he has nightmares about trying to contain some of the world's most evil men with the resources of a local sheriff's department. He has tried that before: Rwanda, where 800,000 Tutsi were slaughtered by rival Hutu tribesmen; Srebrenica, Bosnia, where 8,000 Muslims were killed by Serbs. It wasn't only the U.N. that walked away from these tragedies. In both cases the Security Council--led, at times...
...candidate Bush's running mate, sidled up to the lectern in Philadelphia and said, "Mr. Gore will try to separate himself from his leader's shadow, but somehow we will never see one without thinking of the other." It was hard to see Cheney without thinking of a gray sheriff from some late-period Clint Eastwood western, riding out of retirement to drive off the rascals who'd plundered his town. With a soft voice and a rusty delivery to make his attack lines go down easy, the man from Wyoming stole Al Gore's best bullet from...
...light district, and it was true," Charlie Chaplin noted in his autobiography. Cops looked the other way. "It kept the miners occupied," says Ellen Baumler of the Montana Historical Society. "The women paid money that went right into city coffers"--until 1982, when a new, reform-minded sheriff closed the Dumas, the last of its kind. The mines closed a year later, and Butte was changed forever...