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...their decades together chasing bad guys has given Turk and Rooster similar views of the citizenry. Similar and simple: you never go wrong assuming the worst. "I hate scumbags," Turk says. "I like shooting people." He explains that he joined the police force for the badge and the gun. "Most people respect a badge. Everybody respects a gun." After a few suspicious homicides, both men undergo a brief psychiatric evaluation. When the shrink asks, "How do you feel when innocent people get killed?" Rooster replies, "You know, I sorta got numb to it." He's been around too long...
...Grassley, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, began attacking what he saw as “hoarding” among schools with large and fast-growing endowments. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, floated the possibility of mandating a minimum five-percent payout rate for higher education endowments, similar to the current standards for foundations and other charities that receive tax-exemptions. Harvard sets five percent as its payout goal, but it has exceeded that mark only once in the past 10 years. This is in large part due to consistently high investment returns, as the five percent target...
...political lives of both men are predicated on service - Obama as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side and McCain as a naval officer who spent five years as a prisoner of war - and, despite different approaches, both have put forth plans to spur Americans to heed similar calls. McCain's plan includes streamlining federal volunteer programs via a central office in the White House, providing more support for the federal work-study program and allocating federal matching funds for private-sector job-training programs. Obama's proposals include tuition reimbursement for teachers in underserved communities and the creation...
...granite docks into a recreational marina with berths for 58 yachts - and a waiting list for more. Even the final surviving vestige of Arbroath's fishing industry - a locally cured haddock marketed as the "Arbroath Smokie" - has been bolstered by a Protected Geographical Indication from the European Commission, a similar status that protects sparkling wine from France's Champagne from imitators elsewhere...
...values. That metal is well concealed. Peter Sinclair, his Oxford economics professor, says, "We've had rather few Prime Ministers who've been as intellectually able as David," but recalls that his student (who, he says, won "a sparkling first") was "keen not to show up other people." A similar tribute comes from Vernon Bogdanor, professor of government at Oxford: "He was one of the nicest and ablest pupils I ever taught...