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...machine-gun-fast hipster aphorisms I was prepared for: "No one pops a wheelie for their entire life" (on his career); "The fish stinks from the head down" (on leadership); "I don't do blow. What would I do on cocaine? Start barking and head-butting people? Flame would shoot off me. It would be game over." But every so often he would pause and look over to the side. I figured he was waiting for me to catch up in my notebook, but he would do it even when I wasn't writing. Jeremy Piven was contemplating...
...Service (ICS) might have been called upon to judge a case in which a jealous husband had chopped off his wife's nose, arrange for rice to reach a famine-stricken town, meet a local maharajah for tea, and then wind down by heading off into the jungle to shoot a panther. Then again, everything about the ICS was extraordinary?not least, the immense power wielded by an astonishingly small bureaucracy: in 1901, about 1,000 ICS officers administered a subcontinent of nearly 300 million people. Strangest of all, despite their vast power, ICS men had a reputation for being...
...justification.'" He says Lere was not using official procedures, instead issuing commands in his eastern dialect: "I just sit and watch how they do it. Everything is out of control. They are using the guerrilla system of giving orders," Reindado says. "The intention is to go there to shoot to kill. To kill them all if they can. They give ammunition to the soldiers, who take six or seven magazines.'' Reinado says the strike force comprised 170 soldiers from Metinaro and the First Battalion...
...called out to [the troops] not to come any closer so we can talk," Reinado says. "They don't stop. So I give them a countdown or I shoot. They keep coming, so I shoot." Outnumbered and outgunned, he and eight of his men fought for nine hours before managing to withdraw into the steep hills, beyond the reach of government forces. One man was badly wounded, and died on the way back to Aileu...
...says Alkatiri and other former resistance fighters in the government are communists who've been talking about buying surface-to-air missiles "to shoot down planes." Their ideas are outdated, he says: "None of the young people think that way now." But Reinado says he has no political ambitions. "I'm an officer. My loyalty is to my President [Xanana Gusm?o...