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...nation "continues to assign a higher priority to programs designed to confront conventional military threats, such as ballistic missiles," says terror expert Stephen Flynn, "than [to] unconventional threats, such as a weapon of mass destruction smuggled into the United States by a ship, train, truck or even private jet." The same logic led the country to spend 20 times more, last year, on protecting military bases than on safeguarding the infrastructure of U.S. cities. "We essentially are hardening military bases," Flynn told Congress recently, "and making civilian assets more attractive, softer targets for our adversaries...
...keep warm. The police struggle to keep the damage under control; but with no owner around to claim a trespass violation on a repossessed home, it's difficult for them to make arrests. All they can do is tell the squatters to leave, board up the house and ship off a note to the bank that now owns the property. "It's a victimless crime," says Bert Lippert, a bit sarcastically...
...score to 3-2.Quinnipiac, however, was able widen its lead in the second period, adding two quick scores in the frame’s first three minutes to rob the Crimson of its momentum.“I thought there were times where we were able to right the ship a little bit, but they kept coming and kept making plays,” Donato said.Senior forward Alex Meintel was able to retaliate on a rebound at 11:44 to bring the score back to a more manageable 5-3 Bobcats edge, but Quinnipiac responded as the period wound down with...
...Ferraro, for her part, hasn’t backed down from her comments, but she has jumped ship as Clinton’s “Honorary New York Leadership Council Chair,” a position that, while sounding meaningless, had the congresswoman campaigning on Clinton’s behalf. That said, her letter of resignation has all the contrite grace of a Molotov cocktail hurled into one’s former workplace. She writes, “I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself…The Obama campaign is attacking...
...free magazine Stuff @ Night to keep her company. Others could not be persuaded to wait in the long line. One man, who identified himself only as “Brian,” upon hearing that the wait for lunch would take up all of his lunch break, abandoned ship. Many gave up when, around 12:30 p.m., the rain, which had dampened festivities all day, intensified. “The rains came and that kind of killed a lot [of the promotion],” said James D. Burton, Chipotle’s manager. But he still had high...