Hints and tips:
...John Allen, a retired US Marine general who heads the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, called it a “policy catastrophe”....
...A Woman’s Work, by Harriet Harman, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 416 pages Sarah Gordon is the FT’s business editor...
...Sergeant Shaw, you might recall, was the sleeper agent unconsciously implementing a communist plot to dominate the US....
...Skylight is ostensibly a study in guilt: Tom Sergeant, the successful restaurateur character played by Nighy, is struggling because he had stopped loving his wife before she died a year earlier....
...If stock characters are often brutally loud-mouthed sergeants and corporals, the great stock theme in films, novels and memoirs alike is, of course, class....
...Command and Control, by Eric Schlosser, Allen Lane, RRP£25/Penguin Press, RRP$36, 656 pages Command and Control ranks among the most nightmarish books written in recent years; and in that crowded company...
...screamed Lt Col John Allen. “Turn in your cameras.” The Americans, heads down, handed over their digital cameras....
...John Henry Browne said the soldier – who has been named as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales – could not remember the incident and that there were gaps in his memory....
...Bagram Air Base in February; a video released in January that appeared to show US soldiers urinating on dead insurgents; and the killing of 17 Afghan civilians, including women and children, by a US army sergeant...
...The political pressures swirling around the case will come to a head next week when General John Allen, commander of the Nato forces in Afghanistan, testifies at hearings in the House of Representatives...
...Mr Scardino previously represented a police sergeant accused of robbing a bank....
...General John Allen, the commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, issued a statement on Sunday praising the response of the Afghan National Security Forces, who are in charge of securing Kabul....
...“The process that came out of Sarbanes Oxley was costly, but it made a contribution to raising standards of corporate governance,” said Mark Wippell, a partner at Allen & Overy....
...Allen, Commander International Security Assistance Force (COMISAF), on strategic priority areas and to help improve Nato’s efforts across the entire ISAF operation....
...The Gun: The AK-47 and the Evolution of War, by CJ Chivers, Allen Lane RRP£25, 457 pages The staggering superiority of western firepower was never more clearly shown than at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898...
...As military liaison officer Staff Sergeant Faye Allen says, “They change body shape and so need to have new clothes....
...Mr Allen also dismisses criticism that online courses are not as rigorous as traditional classes....
...: Surviving the Twenty-first Century’ (Allen Lane)...
...James Allen, head of training, said: “Clipper Ventures has been training round the world sailors for the past 12 years....
...Bombardier Harry Secombe watched Lance-Sergeant Milligan firing howitzers in Tunisia. Benny Hill and Howerd swapped professional compliments in a Naafi canteen....
...Williams was good at her job and was promoted to sergeant....
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