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| 776c04a | Detroit, for example, a new police commissioner took over in 1971 and began implementing a more Nixonian approach to illicit drugs. Chief John Nichols doubled up the personnel on his narcotics unit and started arresting and imprisoning heroin dealers instead of merely chasing them off, as the city had done in the past. The result was an impressive stat sheet on the enforcement side: 1,600 arrests. But cracking down on dealers opened the cit.. | Radley Balko | ||
| 6dcdced | If we've been forced into a back-alley fight, are we to ignore the essential weapons of the street brawl? | John Nichol | ||
| bb2e6c7 | Mum sometimes says that there is danger of confusing equal opportunity with being fundamentally the same. | John Nicholl | ||
| a35deba | How much beer are you drinking these days?' 'Seven or eight pints.' 'A week?' 'A day.' She shook her head and scowled. 'What about the whisky?' 'One or two a week.' 'Glasses?' 'Bottles. | John Nicholl | ||
| bc6160d | am sorry to tell you that your partner is dead.' You see, words are important. Just eleven words, and my life was devastated. There was no room for hope, no room for bargaining, no room for denial and no room for pleading. A light had gone out and would never shine again. | John Nicholl | ||
| 1e9a4fc | Consider the various ways in which Trump's campaign represented a one-man campaign against established knowledge. He was one of the original "birthers" who demanded that Barack Obama prove his American citizenship. He quoted the National Enquirer approvingly as a source of news. He sided with antivaccine activism. He admitted that he gets most of his information on foreign policy from "the shows" on Sunday morning television. He suggested t.. | Thomas M. Nichols | ||
| f027048 | I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values," said King. "We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable" | John Nichols | ||
| 1b19652 | You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry ... Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying tha.. | John Nichols | ||
| 4b286ed | If I am not for myself, who will be for me? Yet if I am for myself only, what am I? | John Nichols | ||
| 5ccaafa | Perceptive and valuable personal explorations of time alone include A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland, Party of One by Anneli Rufus, Migrations to Solitude by Sue Halpern, Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton, The Point of Vanishing by Howard Axelrod, Solitude by Robert Kull, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, The Story of My H.. | Michael Finkel | ||
| cea39bf | If universal building codes and protections for children with pre-existing conditions can be presented as assaults on American values and the rule of law - and reported upon as such in major media that turn a promise of balance into an excuse for airing nonsense - then the debate has been dumbed down to such an extent that the right has already won, no matter what the result on election day. | John Nichols | ||
| dbec7b2 | This was my dad, for gosh sakes! After not seeing him for two years, I had finally found him-in another dimension playing chess with a ghost! How was I supposed to calm down? | dad dimension ghost | John McNichol | |
| af849d8 | Presidents can be exceptional men or awful men, and soon presidents will be women. | politics president | John Nichols | |
| 99d8a52 | Christ came to save men, but a good Pagan will go to heaven, and a bad Nazarene to hell. I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other. I will bring ten Mussulman, shall shame you all in good will towards men and prayer to God. | John Nichol | ||
| 166a999 | Nerves got the better of the most experienced pilots during Rhubarbs. On one occasion, two of Robertson's fellow 111 Squadron pilots flew over the Channel up into cloud then came down and slipped over the coast. They spotted a train and shot it up before heading back home. They were surprised on return to be called into the Station Commander's office. What had they been shooting at? A train. Did they damage it? Yes, quite a bit. Did they re.. | John Nichol | ||
| fd192f7 | Major (later General) Curtis LeMay recalled the shock of fog when he flew in to a British airfield for the first time from the US. 'Can you see the runway lights?' the control tower asked the pilot of his aircraft, to which the pilot replied: 'Shit, I can't even see my copilot! | John Nichol | ||
| ae10a5c | In 1941, after a year's experience of bombing Germany, a crucial Air Ministry analysis of photographic evidence had revealed that only 22 per cent of bomber crews who claimed to have hit their target actually got within five miles of it.5 In the more heavily defended Ruhr | John Nichol | ||
| 20b178e | But this was life in those days. Today we are a totally different society. We put out bunches of flowers, have little vigils, hold hands and have counsellors to tell us all what to do. It was totally different then. The world events were so monumental that you had no time to think about the people who had fallen by the wayside. If we had had today's attitudes, we would never have won the war. | John Nichol | ||
| ff33905 | same | Lisa Chaney | ||
| 18ec05c | One of those settlers was Normandy-born and ornately named J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur, who embarked for America in 1754, purchased an estate in Pennsylvania, and married the daughter of an American merchant. In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country and his countrymen in the most flattering terms: We are the most perfect so.. | Simon Anholt | ||
| 153d259 | In his Letters from an American Farmer, first published in 1782 in English and translated soon after into French, Crevecoeur described his adoptive country and his countrymen in the most flattering terms: We are the most perfect society now existing in the world... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world... Here a man is free as he ought to .. | Simon Anholt | ||
| b964ec5 | America is basically about freedom. | Simon Anholt | ||
| 1611e05 | a while. Until about a year | Susan Conant | ||
| 67f0e9c | Gino Fosse vond deze vreemde afbeeldingen van martelaren fascinerend. Hij had uren in de San Stefano Rotondo, niet ver van de villa Celimontana, zitten kijken naar de vaklieden die de verbijsterende schilderingen op de muren daar restaureerden. Deze afbeeldingen spraken tot hem, zeiden iets dat hij niet helemaal begreep. Op de lippen van de martelaren lag op het moment dat zij de kwellingen doorstonden, een raadselachtig eeuwig geheim dat z.. | David Hewson | ||
| cb6cf3a | He was determined to take the first flight out, wherever it went. Anywhere had to be better than this. | David Hewson | ||
| 6e48a21 | it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American. | Bruce Cumings | ||
| c180e64 | In fact the United States has had no exit strategy since 1945, expect in places where we were kicked out (Vietnam) or asked to leave (the Philippines): American troops still occupy Japan, Korea, and Germany, in the seventh decade after the end of World War II. Policymakers - almost always civilians with little or no military experience (Acheson is the archetype) - get Americans into wars but cannot get them out, and soon the Pentagon takes .. | korean-war military military-history war | Bruce Cumings | |
| 4f4de13 | Eventually the Korean War will be understood as one of the most destructive and one of the most important wars of the twentieth century. | korea korean-war military-history war | Bruce Cumings | |
| 98e0ef9 | It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States in the policeman of the world. | military-history the-korean-war war war-history | Bruce Cumings | |
| 2cda6ff | It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States into the policeman of the world. | korea military-history the-korean-war war war-history | Bruce Cumings | |
| d5b786c | Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end. | korea korean-war military-history war war-history | Bruce Cumings | |
| 62cf98d | And last week, when he finally began to erase it, he noticed something very strange: the accent on the letter E was actually formed from a piece of materiel. We all watched as he stared at the letter E for a very long time. Then he slowly unpeeled the rolled-up cloth fro the blackboard and unfurled the biggest pair of polka dot panties anyone in the room had ever seen. | panties pate tricky | Jennifer Allison | |
| b2ff68a | The heat of summer was all but a memory now as the late November chill grew teeth and bit hard. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 98f0839 | Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.' Henry | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 5ae9daf | The last twenty-four hours had been one result after another, and the small swell of pride she felt for her team was only marred by the pointless loss of a young life. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| b4b1386 | the stars, this victim was not a natural beauty, but someone who had been tampered with to produce a shocking wax-like effect. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 6f772f9 | sorry son, you can't. But I'll come back for you. I promise.' Charles wiped the tears from Frank's freckled cheek with his thumb. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 656e2bb | police all the more determined to find him. Doctor Tanner had been warned. His beneficiary had instructed him from the start: have your fun but frame Nathan Crosby. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| 2c7071a | by the time she left, she was equipped with an evidence bag containing the seized jewellery and a statement giving up Danny Smedley as the person who pawned it. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| f3a7d81 | Ruby nodded, knowing the bond of having a daughter would always keep them in contact. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| f6ad362 | Water found its own level, she had said, and there were enough damaged souls in the world to find each other and begin the cycle all over again. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| effe1ae | She knelt down, her breath stinking of cigarettes and alcohol. It was his mother's signature aroma. | Caroline Mitchell | ||
| be7102b | The best way of keeping a low profile was to immerse himself in the mundane. Act like them, talk like them. A smile, a joke was all it took - at least during the day. The night was his own. | serial-killer thriller | Caroline Mitchell | |
| b4038b9 | He would never comprehend what I was going through unless I told him, but he'd never look at me the same way again if I did. | Caroline Mitchell |