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Byrne, the officer alleged to have assaulted Trombly, declined to comment, deferring to his superior, Cpt. William Evans. Evans’ office referred all calls to BPD’s public relations office, which declined to comment beyond Burns’ statement...
...that the cells followed classic bin Laden practice: over time, cell members built up a small local support network to collect information, rent houses, buy equipment for the "sleeper" operatives while they waited to be activated. As happened with the East Africa embassy bombings, agents think only a few superior handlers--a Commander X or two--sent perhaps by HQ at the penultimate moment, knew how the final pieces were meant to fit together. They're the ones Washington desperately wants to find, because they might provide the definitive link to bin Laden and interdict more terrorist acts...
Cohen should rethink her disgust with the male half of her own species. Individual responsibility cannot be masked behind a blind attempt to resolve her motives for peace through sexism. We do need compassion and caring solidarity. But instilling a mentality that women are so more morally superior is not constructive in that respect...
...well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand,” never sounded so sinister. The song stretches out and engulfs, this time with the band’s accompaniment, laced with soulless defences of the amendment, while Amos intones, full of multiple meanings: “Mother Superior jump the gun.” If this is an anti-gun rant, Amos would be the last to make it simple or easy...
...times like these it is hard not to have an “us against them” attitude, hard not to feel that our citizens, who are fighting so hard to save lives beneath the rubble, are in some way supremely superior to those who celebrated in the streets at the news of the attack. But we’re all human beings, sharing the same world...