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...left her behind the counter and got on a train across Paris. Arriving at the city’s largest station, I tried again. “There is nothing I can do, sir,” I heard. “People like you come in here day after day, day after day. And I can only help those with proper identification. You’ll just have to come back with your photo ID next week...
...started out using token bureaucratic phrases on our disgruntled clients such as, “The rules are rules” and “There is nothing I can do, sir...
...July 7, two weeks prior to the shooting, four suicide bombers killed 52 people on three Tube trains and a bus. Two weeks later, on July 21, four more men outfitted with explosives failed to detonate themselves on London's transit system. An internal memo leaked on Sunday from Sir Ian Blair, chief of London's Metropolitan Police Service, seems to shift potential blame from the police force to the unprecedented security fears. "We confidently believed that our systems of command, of surveillance and of firearms intervention were among the best in the world," he wrote. "However, they failed...
...again?”“Yes, again,” said Frederick, allowing his hair to fall across his face, creating, thought he, a brooding effect. “As are we all.”“Surely not, sir,” said Roxanna, with a feeling heave of her rustic bosom. “The air and sunshine are so clear and fortifying here. The whole outdoors smells only of pleasant things.”“Ah, Roxanna,” Frederick said. “It is not merely...
...controversy was raised in April after it was revealed that he used official helicopter training missions to visit the property of his girlfriend, Kate Middleton, and fly his brother to a bachelor party. According to British newspapers, those sorties resulted in the head of the RAF, Air Chief Marshal Sir Glenn Torpy, demanding a "line-by-line" explanation of their authorization and left columnists debating whether the royals' involvement with the military was a sideshow for forces already overstretched in Afghanistan and Iraq...