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...WARREN CHRISTOPHER Clinton Administration...
...defections in the aftermath of Katrina, the fire department had none. But of the 600-plus firefighters, 100 are out sick on any given day, much of it ascribed to Katrina-related illnesses, says Superintendent Charles Parent. To avoid a repeat of last year's looting, Police Superintendent Warren Riley has promised that the city's cops will be on the streets patrolling with National Guard troops and enforcing a 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. curfew on those who don't leave. He has already asked for 3,000 Guardsmen for the next storm, whenever it comes...
...Kevlar blanket. Crime dropped to an all-time low for the rest of the year. About 100 murders that should have happened never did--at least not in New Orleans. "It gave us an opportunity to have a clear picture of what peace in a city is," says Warren Riley, now superintendent of the police department. "I think even our criminal element for a short period of time had a change of heart...
...fair to say, up there with the stuff churned out by George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II and Cole Porter all by himself. Or with the fabulous songs written in the '30s and '40s by such Hollywood tunesmiths as Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer...
...that happen to Swanson and his collection of folksy phrasings and spot-on aphorisms, which was first published in 2004 and given out free to Raytheon employees before it found a wide and enthusiastic audience that included Warren Buffett and Jack Welch? Credit goes to Carl Durrenberger, a San Diego engineer, who was packing up his cubicle at Hewlett-Packard to move to another division when he came across a copy of a 1944 chestnut given him by a former boss: The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King...