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...Korean-American neighborhoods with words of conciliation in an effort to dispel the notion that his 7,600-member department is an army of occupation. And he carries a big stick. Even though the city is strapped for cash, Williams recently got about $1 million for new riot gear that includes rubber bullets, tear-gas bombs, face shields and 10 crisis vans. "I don't think we are going to have widespread violence," Williams says. But he notes that all police officers have received 16 hours of riot training since he arrived...
Victory? Only one bringing to mind King Pyrrhus' lament after a battle against the Romans: "Another such victory and we are undone." Saddam's losses were relatively minor: some sophisticated milling and welding equipment, but only antiquated military gear. For that price, he exposed new strains in the U.S.-led alliance against him. Russia, Egypt and other Arab states expressed misgivings; France, though it participated in some bombing, criticized the missile attack. Paris seemed wary of antagonizing its allies in the Arab world, and Moscow appeared to be afraid of Russian nationalists who deplore any kowtowing to the U.S.; those...
...feel to most legal thrillers. Virtually all are blurbed as the work of the next Turow, which may not be an endorsement, since Turow's plodding prose can be a way not of passing time but doing it. Still, a few lawyer novels pass minimal standards as survival gear. For the next time you're sentenced to 7 to 10 years between planes at O'Hare, here's a sampling of legal thrillers...
...answer, according to Maher, was not. Harvard kept the game close for the first 15 minutes before Stanford's transition game hit high gear and the Cardinal pulled away...
...noon the lead armored vehicle, with Old Glory waving, shifts into first gear, followed by 76 five-ton trucks, humvees and amphibious light armored vehicles. Belt-fed machine guns, mortars or antitank missile launchers are mounted on each vehicle. Every one of the 700 carries an automatic rifle. Marines pull on heavy desert-camouflage flak jackets and don steel helmets. Ammunition clips snap into place. The men of Team Tiger, the name given to the group of Marines going to Baidoa, are expecting trouble...