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Holder Explains Threat That Would Call for Killing Without Trial
“Given the nature of how terrorists act and where they tend to hide, it may not always be feasible to capture a United States citizen terrorist who presents an imminent threat of violent attack,” Mr. Holder said in a speech at Northwestern University’s law school .
Drawing on Garth’s statistical expertise and my extensive survey of the literature in supermarket checkout lines, we published an equation in The New York Times predicting the probability that a celebrity marriage would endure. The equation’s variables included the relative fame of the husband and wife, their ages, the length of their courtship, their marital history, and the sex-symbol factor (determined by looking at the woman’s first five Google hits and counting how many show her in skimpy attire, or no attire).
A Refined Formula to Predict Doom in Celebrity Marriages
A curious feature of our political debate is the way it compels former prime ministers to lose their dignity in the endless feedback loop of the legacy war. The Americans, despite their more openly hostile political culture, treat their ex-leaders with sufficient deference to absolve them of the need for after-the-fact combat.
Fraser, Hawke, Keating and Howard in Retirement Love thy Leader | George Megalogenis
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.” – Robert Louis Stevenson At first glance this remark looks like a throwaway line from the adventure fantasy of Treasure Island or, in a darker mood, from the strange and terrible world of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde .
The Game of Politics Amateur League | Mungo MacCallum
The NS Profile: François Hollande
Three decades ago, a French politician flew to Washington to take part in a left-wing conference.