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"It was the first reported disappearance of U.S. military in Colombia," though the Pentagon and Colombian authorities have been cooperating for years--the WP should say how many--to battle narcotics.
Countless articles in this vein have been published in the past few years--the recent controversial New York Times piece on the absurdity of the diagnosis "road rage," for instance ("You're Not Bad.
The portrait captures a fraught moment in Degas' career, when he had lost interest in the witty chronicle of modern life he'd pursued with such brilliance for 20 years--the parade of shopgirls and laundresses and jockeys and prostitutes that had made him famous.
Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations.
A WP front pager details a sure sign of the tightest U.S. labor market in thirty years--the upswing in companies looking for new hires in the U.S. prison population.