Word: thursdaying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Police Department Commissioner Robert C. Haas announced at a press conference this afternoon that the Department would be assembling a panel of "independent notable professionals" in coming days to review and analyze the controversial arrest of black Harvard Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. at his own home last Thursday...
...Last Thursday's incident had transpired when a woman reported to police that she saw two men apparently trying to pry open the front door to Gates' home. But the men entering were likely Gates, who had returned to Cambridge after a trip to China, and his car driver, who was helping him force his way through a jammed front door. When officers arrived to investigate, tensions flared as Gates, who had by then entered the home, angrily and loudly accused the officer of targeting him because he was black, according to police reports...
...Earlier Thursday, President Obama said he was "surprised" by the controversy that had erupted over his comments at a press conference last night, where he had said that the Cambridge Police acted "stupidly" in arresting Gates. Haas said at the conference that his officers took the comments to heart and were "stunned" and "deflated...
...clear, he was not calling the officer stupid," Gibbs told reporters as Obama landed in Cleveland for two health care events Thursday. He said Obama felt that "at a certain point the situation got far out of hand" at Gates' home last week...
...Thursday of my third week, I had carefully honed these skills, and attempted to prove myself with an early morning stride-race to the lifts with Janice (who was supposed to be in New York but had presumably marched across the ocean in her hurry to get here...