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...breaking that makes it pretty much official. Three weeks ago, the Pentagon began work on a new missile defense "Headquarters Command Center" at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, about 10 miles south of the Pentagon. The $38.5 million building will be home to 300 Missile Defense Agency workers. Its planned brick veneer will match the fort's Georgian Colonial Revival style. Once finished in late 2010, the brand new missile-defense headquarters will blend in with Fort Belvoir's pre-World War II buildings. It will seem like it has always been there...
...Kilpatrick’s self-obsessed indignation shouldn’t be surprising: Political leaders who have slipped so far from an ethic of responsibility to their cause and constituents can rarely reclaim the veneer that once made them seem so admirable...
...Sarobi that insurgents had killed 10 French troops in August, but after a few phone calls, Ali decided that Sarobi was probably the safest district we could visit to report on the security situation beyond the capital. Once we reached Sarobi, however, we realized that even Kabul's veneer of safety was just an illusion...
...evident that “Only by the Night” is crafted with much more of an arena-rock feel than anything else the band has released. Many of the songs defy the Kings’ old garage rock sound with a new emphasis on veneer. A gimmicky guitar riff drives album opener “Closer,” and it’s far from enough to get the listener through its dragging four minutes of heartbreak, which feature lyrics like, “You shimmy-shook my boat / Leaving me stranded all in love...
...could do great things with that money; instead, we’re sinking it into the preservation of a very unsavory little community. Consider the infighting, the bacchanalia, the apparent inward stirring of drink-soaked, greedy chaos—all inexpertly tucked behind their spokesperson’s calming veneer. People are calling for these men’s heads, and the bucks certainly haven’t made it any easier on themselves: their insouciance, their apparent lack of contrition and the nonchalance with which they roll the dice with the lives and means of innocent people, alien...