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There is a strong chance that the worst violence will occur not between armed forces but in the streets -- and it could endanger U.S. troops even if they arrive in what Pentagon officials call a "permissive environment." Minutes before Clinton's speech on Thursday, Cedras told CBS that the landing of U.S. troops would trigger "a massacre starting with a civil war." Self- serving as his statement was, it accurately reflected just how ferocious the country's animosities have become...
...cops themselves rarely blame the obvious culprit -- the tension of living forever in the cross hairs. Veteran officers and the experts who study them agree that the pressure on police officers actually comes from some surprising sources. The most crushing battles, they argue, often occur not on the streets but in the rundown precinct houses, and the courtrooms, and the $ privacy of their own homes. Too often, police complain, the commanders and commissioners who cops imagined would guide and protect them seem to ignore or betray them instead. "Frequently, officers feel that somewhere on the line between lieutenant and captain...
...understand the reason, it may be necessary to climb into a time machine, to return to the moment. Events occur in contexts. At the time, it seemed that nothing less than such a devastation would serve to eradicate a Japanese militarist regime that had killed infinitely more innocent civilians than died on those two nuclear mornings. The scales of death were pretty heavy, well before the Bomb. Four months earlier, Americans suffered 48,000 casualties taking Okinawa. And in March 1945, the incendiary- bomb raids had burned down much of Tokyo and killed at least 100,000, a toll approaching...
Indeed, Bates said, censorship could occur with respect to what is released to the media. The decision about whether publishing the photographs would affect O.J. Simpson's chances of obtaining a fair trial should be made by the courts, she said...
...right now," or "Right now I'm trying a lot of herbal teas," or "I 'm concentrating on me right now, just me!" "Right now" captures the magic sound of a person trying to get his shit together, and Sedaris knows the sound intimately. A lot of these stories occur "right now," in that place where our hopes for a publicly acceptable "lifestyle" start to sound a little desperate...