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...Thompson: In recent years, top officers have been taking less individual responsibility for disasters on their watch - with the USS Cole, for example, or when the Marines hit the ski gondola in Italy - but this may force the services to take another look at culpability. At this point, we know that Commander Waddle's Navy career is over, along with those of several of his subordinates. The only question now is whether they'll face court-martial proceedings. We'll have to keep watching to find out - it's too early to say just...
...fact that we now know with a high degree of confidence that the climate of the future will be more variable. And there's not any good news in extreme events. You can say, 'It will be a little warmer and it might be good or bad, less ski time and more beach time.' You can rationalize it. But extreme events are inherently disruptive. If you look over the last handful of years, it's the extreme events that have been so devastating...
What's weird about the following scene: Beijing gangsters shove hostages into a car and flee. When the pursuing police fire at their gas tank, blowing it up, the hooligans hustle the captives from the smoldering wreck into a nearby building. A dozen cops in black ski masks race across open ground firing semi-automatic weapons at them, scale the building with ropes, then swing from the rooftop through the windows. After a second gun battle, they subdue the outlaws. It's unclear what has become of the hostages. Later, when asked if police normally open fire on cars...
...from their plundered country. But what can they do with their foreign villas and bank accounts if they lose access? Might their nevyezdnoi status compel them to reinvest their ill-gotten gains in their own national economy? A major oligarch is said to be looking into the development of ski resorts in the Caucasus Mountains. Might the lure of potential profits force Russian tycoons to pacify Chechnya more effectively-and less barbarously-than the government has been trying to? Will they, indeed, find ways to make their money serve them here-and benefit their country, too? If so, the West...
...downhill events, the Crimson found the icy terrain difficult to ski. However, Harvard had some fine personal performances...