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...most aggressively secular societies on the planet. Though Blair went to lengths not to make a big deal of his faith when in office ("We don't do God," Campbell once said, though he now insists he did so only to get rid of a journalist who had overrun his allotted time), that did not stop the British from making fun, or worse, of Blair for his religious beliefs...
...real red meat of “Cop in the Hood” is, as its title suggests, the brutality and absurdity of police life outside the walls of the Police Academy. Moskos depicts the inner-city police districts of East Baltimore as completely overrun by the local drug market, where dealers hawk cocaine and heroin stored in perfume vials to eager addicts at all hours of the day. Given the impossibility of arresting thousands of users and dealers (often children or teenagers without any other means of income), the situation Moskos paints is bleak: the police, handicapped by unnecessary...
...three, who said she is looking for a more “creative approach” that would utilize more one-on-one student learning and non-traditional teaching methods. “Teachers are willing to learn, change, grow, but I just feel they’re getting overrun and overworked by the central administration,” she added, calling for more teacher input and funding. But Lawrence J. Adkins, who ran for the Cambridge City Council in 2005, said that teacher input was hard to come by with Fowler-Finn—who has been described...
Development of the Air Force's unmanned aircraft system had a whopping 219% overrun after three years...
...Winston Churchill and, most notably, the Iran hostage crisis. He started as an editorial assistant for CBS News at the 1960 Democratic Convention, when J.F.K. became the presidential nominee. Later, while working for ABC News, he was the first journalist reporting from Tehran after the U.S. embassy was overrun and 52 Americans were taken hostage in 1979. Nightly broadcasts featuring his reporting on the two-year crisis later became the show Nightline...