>>> doing time at corcoran state prison can be like living in a war zone. most of corcoran's crime and violence are the powerful prison gangs that prey on each other and the weak. their booming drug business not only pervades every facility at corcoran, it extends far beyond the prison walls into the outside world. lieutenant terry norton knows that being locked up does not stop inmates from conducting business as usual. >> the gangs inside the prison control drug trafficking, extortion, any kind of crime that you can think of that happens on the streets. it happens within the prison system. they have their politics. they have their pecking order, their soldier that has to eliminate the guy they want off the yard. they all have their little jobs that they have to do. >> gang members communicate with each other both in and out of prison by microwriting on scraps of paper. >> even though the individual is locked up, they have a lot of access to individuals on the street. they have visitors that see them on a regular basis. they have the mail. they're able to

this is "lockup, corcoran, extended stay." inmates have been dreaming up ways to smuggle in contraband since corcoran opened its doors in 1988. >> there is drugs in prison, obviously. >> whether in the form of drugs. >> when we get it, it's usually like this. >> or weapons. >> looks like it's made of aluminum. >> piece of stainless steel here. >> come off one of our food carts. >> always a race against time for the officers to find contraband. >> look at that. >> before it's too late. during the months our crew spent inside corcoran we witnessed our fair share of searches. today on "a" yard, the maximum security facility, we caught up with an officer beginning his shift with one of three standard cell searches. >> random search, every day, every day. looking for some contraband. razors, they break them apart. an awful lot in the cell. good weapon. piece a metal. just sharpen that. take this and write them up. can't tell what it came out of, but sharpen that, that would make a good shank. make a couple weapons out of that. >> i

i guess they have heard a lot about corcoran. >> what do you know about corcoran? >> what i know? i know it ain't no joke. that's what i know. i know this is serious business. >> corcoran is a pretty rough prison i hear. to get a draw, it's one of the rougher prisons. >> this is how serious it is. it's a life or death situation. pretty much, yeah. it is like that. i don't care what they tell you. it is like that. okay? it is hardcore like that. >> corcoran's general population inmates are split into three main yards. the level one yard consists mainly of low security inmates, many of whom are in on parole violations. "b" yard holds the medium level three security inmates. and "a" yard is home to the maximum security level four inmates who are serving time for more violent crimes. but first they have to get past sergeant rangel. >> i'm currently assigned as a receiving and release sergeant at cork ron state prison. i'm responsible for the overall operations of the intake of inmates. >> hands behind your back and go on in. >> and the outgoing departure of the inmates that are paroli

this is "lockup, corcoran extended stay." corcoran is a turbulent sea of gang politics. >> most of these people out in this yard they could die right there and i would watch them die. i don't care about them. >> when it comes down to it, you miss one bean, you'll miss the whole burrito. >> from old school prison gangs to disruptive street gangs, it's a dangerous mix for staff and inmates alike. >> bulldogs are at war right now with everybody. >> in an effort to control their activity, officers move known gang members into the shu, where they have a choice, stay in the gang or get out. >> everybody has to die sometime. i might as well go out with a bang. >> california state prison corcoran has the largest security housing unit or shu in the state. holding more than 1,200 inmates and split between two units, the shu houses some of the worst inmates in california. the majority of these are eater validated gang members or inmates too violent or hazardous to be housed in a regular population. they receive only ten hours of rec tim

this is "lockup: corcoran extended stay." >> get on the ground! on the ground! hold him on the ground. on the ground! >> in corcoran, survival is the number one priority for inmates and officers alike. >> you have to live with it. this is what i want to do. so, i'm here. >> whether it's inmates adhering to racial politics. >> i will probably set off a race riot, if i sat right here. >> or officers keeping themselves and the population safe. >> this is what we're looking for. we're always looking for weapons. any time we remove weapons from a cell, that means one less weapon out there on the yard. one less weapon that could be used against staff. >> when these two sides are fighting to survive -- >> i don't care because he wears green. he bleeds just like i bleed. >> the results can be explosive. >>> in the four months we spent inside corcoran, our producers saw violence erupt many times. though never between inmates and officers. as we neared the end of our stay, no one foresaw that the greatest threat to corcoran staff might come from an event in a california p

may be moving. >> reporter: for the past 115 years, the corcoran gallery of art has been located ath street and new york avenue where it houses one of the country's most impressive collection of american art. >> there are a lot of legitimate reasons for it to move. >> reporter: there are strong signs tonight that the corcoran's days and the home could very well be numbered. >> it's maybe time for the institution to look for different space. >> reporter: in a statement the corcoran's director says "our needs are made especially challenging by a high operating cost. one of the options now is to consider relocating to a purpose built technologically advanced facility that is cost effective to maintain. ". the gallery's challenges are not just financial. it will have a $7 million deficit this year but gee graphical. >> it's difficult to get there. >> reporter: while it was at a prime location for museums and galleries when it moved here in 1987. >> at that time, that whole neighborhood was really the center of social and cultural ideas in washington. >> reporter: that is no longer the c

he's actually doing time right now at corcoran. all right? we brought a program it's called "another way." what the "another way" program does is it talks about the realities of the choices that you are making right now, okay? the choices that could lead you to prison. >> i can tell you how to get it to prison. it's not that hard. we're here to tell you how to stay out of prison, if you want to hear it. we all know there's crime out here in these streets. we all know there's gangs out here. but how do we stop it? that's why i'm here. all right? mr. sanders. >> good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> my name is sanders, my number is do 9582. i've been doing time since the early '80s. every morning you wake up, get up at 5:30, you go eat chow, you go to your job assignment, whatever. it's no fun. you know what i mean? >> how many people in here have family in prison? >> yeah, family or friends. >> i have. >> how many have brothers and sisters and family and cousins that say it's cool up in there? oh, they say it's cool up in there, huh? co

this is "lockup: corcoran -- extended stay." inmate interaction in prison is volatile at best. >> dude told me he was going to stab me. i told him to get his knife and i went in and got my knife. >> whether it's with officers. >> you are the captain, man. something has happened to you. >> disputes with other races or gangs. >> i got in a fight on the level one yard. i had lied to home boys, prison home boys of mine and i guess i had it coming. >> or even a prison romance. >> i had sex with my cellie. >> in corcoran it's not a question of if there will be violence, but when. >> everybody down! get down! >> violence flares in the gym on "a" yard and officers move quickly to reclaim control. david salazar, the victim of the battery, refuses to identify his attacker, and the corcoran officers launch a massive investigation. >> let me see your knuckles. >> flip them. you can pick up your shirt? >> take your whole shirt off. >> hey, salazar, are you a -- >> this inmate apparently got assaulted really, really bad inside the gym. we're

there are a lot of legitimate reasons to move. >> reporter: but there are strong signs that the corcoran'sng- time architecturally significant home could very well be numbered. >> it's maybe time for the institution to look for different space. >> reporter: in a statement the corcoran's director said, quote, our needs are made especially challenging by the high operating costs of a building that is beautiful but antiquated. one of the options now is to consider relocating to a purpose built technologically advanced facility that is cost effective to maintain. >> they're a financial disaster. >> reporter: david levy was the director of the corcoran gallery for 14 years before leaving in 2005. he says the gallery's challenges are not just financial. some say it will have a deficit this year but geographical. >> it's very difficult to get there. you can't park a car. >> reporter: while it was in a prime location for museums and galleries when it moved here in 1897. >> at that time that whole neighborhood was really the center of social and cultural life in washington. >> reporter: that's no l

i love the corcoran.ibits there. >> the problem is it would cost $130 million to update the current building they're in. more than 1 her her yea00 years. they're testing the waters -- >> there were huge art supporters in this community, too. i wonder if someone will step up. >> the building is so small, they can't display -- they can only display 3% or less of the collection -- >> that's what i like about it. the intimacy of the gallery. i've seen beautiful exhibit. >> all about the money. >> i know. too bad. >>> stay with us, "news4 today" continues now at 5:00 a.m. >>> the scandal rocked penn state. now after all the headlines, jerry sandusky will finally get his day in court. >>> good morning, everybody, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" today for this tuesday, june 5, 2012. we'll take a look outside, 4:59. 69 degrees. everyone is like, what is going on? it's really cool for this time of year. do i need to unpack the sweater? jackets all put away. >> dig it out for this mor

while at corcoran, you constantly hear these alarms going off. you're never sure what's going to happen in this place. but then when you hear those alarms and everyone dropping down to the ground and you get those rifles peering out of the towers, i mean, immediately it takes your breath away for a second. >> in most cases the alarm sounds when a fight has broken out between inmates. though these incidents are usually brought to a stop within minutes, they always pose serious danger to the responding officers and to our crews. >> while at corcoran, there was this one instance. we were doing pretty much a routine cell search. we were following along, they had the dogs, it was a controlled environment. we were in one of the pods, one of the cells. and then right in the middle of it we heard the -- you know, and we saw the guards. guards didn't even say anything to us. they just started sprinting. so i'm like, i'm going. >> on the ground! get on your stomachs! >> inmates know that when alarms sound, they're required to lie on the ground, otherwise c

. >> at california state prison corcoran we met one young inmate who was ordered to attack an older, weaker gang member simply to thin out the herd. he asked that we not use his name. >> i accepted that because that's the way it is. i didn't question it. some things i was against. but you know, i just dealt with it and accepted it because that's the way -- that's the law of the land in here. >> he explained the hit was ordered because the older victim was unable to keep up with the gang's military-style exercise program. >> he couldn't keep up with the exercise. that was the reason. this is how stupid this is. the dumb reasons they have in here. when i did speak up for him, it was placed on me. well, since you're speaking up for him, then you'll deal with it. and i dealt with it because that's what it was about. >> the older inmate survived the stabbing. and his assailant quit the gang. >> finally i made my stance and went against it. now i'm a christian and i go for that. i wrote him a letter and i apologized and told him i was sorry that i had to do that, that i was so weak. and i

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corcoran that day when you cancelled hearings. well scott, his eyebrows were flapping, i don't know if you remember irvin, he creates quite a breeze. he said we talked about the future of the two-party system. and i thought about this. and i suddenly realized that was it. in the course of ex-mri indication of why watergate happened, and the money that he put in his pocket, they were going to have to reveal that humphrey did the same thing. and humphrey had a close family member go to jail. very few people remember that. this other person was convicted of it. so there's very little. in the end, the cover up worked. you look at excisions of tapes, there are conversations called personal matters that have been left largely to the family to determine what they are. in a sense, nixon's reputation was rehabilitated. in fact, he was a crook. exactly what he said he wasn't. he was a crook. now i don't hold that against him as i might today, but the results of watergate were supposedly campaign finance reform and the independent council. w

. >>> today is your chance to tell the corcoran gallery of art what you think about the possibility of it moving out of washington. the museum is holding a series of public meetings to get feedback from the community. the first meeting is tonight at 6:30 at the museum. the corcoran's board of directors recently announced it's thinking about selling its downtown building for financial reasons. >>> 4:37, 68 degrees. ahead on "news 4 today," preventing further tragedy. the changes the relatives of a woman killed by a cyclist want made to a popular bike path. >>> plus, mother nature left her mark on dallas. >>> summer's almost here, but it's not going to feel like it. >>> a rare weather event in dallas. take a look here. hail pelted that city for about an hour last night. some places reported hailstones the size of baseballs. nobody got hurt, but the hail did damage hundreds of cars as well as a dallas landmark. the hail smashed parts of the marquee outside the historic lakewood theater. a lot of roofs torn up there as well. just a ton of damage from ice, basically. all ice. >> you'd bette

that would be too bad if we lost the corcoran in the city. >> it would. space, if you've been there, you know it's a small space to display a huge collection. the cost of renovation would be astronomical. >> hope to get some help. >>> want to show live pictures from london. we're staying on top of the queen's diamond jubilee as the prayer service is now underway. this day of thanksgiving at the st. paul's cathedral there. >> that's right. this is a culmination of four days of celebration for the tribute to queen elizabeth's 60 years on the throne. there have been a number of events, concerts last night for each decade. today she will be having this service at st. paul's cathedral. then there will be receptions and private gatherings, as well, to honor the queen during this special time. >>> the service will include a prayer that was written at the direction of the queen, and obviously missing here is prince phillip, her husband, the duke of edinburgh, in the hospital. dealing with a bladder infection. not too- not too much concern there. but out of an abu

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today barbara corcoran is here with tips on closing the deep.ems that sellers often have. one of the things you say sellers do is they price their house too high. that's a huge mistake. >> almost everybody does that coming out of the gate. what you should do is investigate what the five houses that are going to compete with you are going to price at and price yours 10 to 15%. >> bidding wars take care of it. >> bidding wars take care of everything on its own. your house is an extension of yourself and you feeling like it's a personal insult. most low bidders come up to a roonable price. get over yourself, count your bids. >> i was surprised about this. you say sometimes home sellers like to be inside the home f you say get out. >> get out for sure. these are people who never had company and they can't wait to see who's coming into their house. but what happens is psychologically, the buyers, the shoppers can't picture themselves in the house. >> yeah, yeah, ya. so get out. >> yeah. >> sometimes you wait to do home repairs but you thing it's a go

and he's not the only gay boy gangster on the sensitive needs yard at corcoran.er, who goes by the name demon, told us the gbgs should not be taken lightly. >> we hurt anybody that -- inside the prison system, anybody that tries to forcefully take property or rape or in any way hurt a homosexual who can't defend themselves. that's where we step down. >> demon had a very striking appearance. first thing i noticed about him was he had a tattoo over each eyebrow, one said gay, one said boy. he had no teeth, and he had a mohawk. >> it started out as a joke, and i just kind of like -- i was looking at it in the mirror, i'm like that's punk rock. i like that. >> turner is serving three years for trespassing and making a threat to cause bodily harm. he told us he wanted a cell witi contreras as much for the pairing of their nicknames as anything else. >> that would be cool, demon and wicked would be really punk rock. that would definitely be one of those once in a lifetime cellie happenings, you know what i mean? >> but contreras didn't seem as eager to be celled with t

our real estate expert barbara corcoran is here with some real bargains.all under 200. >> first off we have a traditional colonial that's found in the village of montgomery, illinois. $165,000. >> you bet. everyone loves a traditional colonial house. they're always the highest priced houses on any block. this one has a nice front porch and it's still only $165,000. that is a really cheap price. neat as a pin with nice black shutters and a big, green back yard. it's surrounded by a privacy fence. the living room gets plenty of natural light. don't be fooled by the dark drapes. they pull your eye in but that is a nice, sunny room from top to bottom. >> very pretty but the black doesn't make the room look bright. the open dining room is defined by the barely there door frame and feels extra spacious thanks to the nine-foot ceilings. that is a lovely, modern room. the kitchen has 42-inch wood cabinets and everybody knows you don't use the top shelf. i don't think we lost the kitchen. a wrap around counter. the master bedroom has dove gray walls, ceiling fan, a

. >>> the corcoran gallery of art wants to know what you think about its decision to move out of washington it is holding a series of meetings to get feedback from the community. the board of directors recently announced it is thinking of selling its downtown building for financial reasons. holding out hope. >> $130 million needed for a building that is too small to house its collection. >> stay with us. news 4 continues at 5:00 a.m. >>> we are watching the weather this morning. a line of rain moving into the region. the impact it might have on your commute as you get ready to head out the door. good morning, i'm erin gilchr t gilchrist. and i'm eun lang. it's humid. it is raining out there. it was humid, and all of a sudden. >> we have been running a deficit in 2012. this will help out a little bit. good timing as the prime growing season under way. we look at what's been happening over the last several hours. moving color is generally light rain.

have some manson memorabilia that charles manson has created since he's been incarcerated here at corcoranuring one of our shoots at california state prison corcoran, our crew barely got a glimpse of manson before he covered up his window. a recent mug shot shows how much he has aged since first coming to prison in 1971. but his artwork provides a unique insight into his life behind bars. >> here a scorpion that he's made. basically, taking thread from various types of items, socks and t-shirts and towel, he creates it and uses -- it looks like a marker to color. this is probably one of the items that he makes the most of. scorpions and spiders. i would assume this is something like a harp. and he's made it out of toilet paper and newspaper. it looks like some dental floss, a small stick, and probably for the coloring, he used kool-aid to get the coloring for it. >> why do you have it? >> he's not allowed to have it. occasionally, we go through and do cell searches and confiscate all items. he doesn't have a hobby card and other inmates try to sneak it out and put it on ebay and sell it. s

for more than a century but the corcoran gallery of art could be moving.ding to the washington city paper three sources at the gallery say leadership changes and funding struggles may prompt the gallery's board to sell the building. right now it's located at 17th street in northwest. the city paper also reports alexandria's city council is looking to redevelop the water front and the addition of a new home for the corcoran gallery could be part of those plans. >>> coming up tonight an accident split a cadillac in half. everybody survived. we'll tell you what went wrong. >>> and a back yard crook was caught in the act and a local football fan is fuming mad. >>> our weather today, jim, was perfect for any big outdoor project. we're in the 70s. low to mid 70s today. the air is dry, cool, crisp, even a little breezy. we'll talk about if there is a sign of any warmup this week and if we're going to stay all that dry. we'll also talk about what's up with the sun and that little dot. that's venus, all coming up on the other side of the break when news 4 at 6:00 r

. >>> today is your chance to tell the corcoran gallery of art what you think about the possibility ofving out of washington. the museum is holding a series of public meetings to get feedback from the community. the first meeting is tonight at 6:30 at the museum. corcoran's board of directors recently announced that they are thinking about selling the building downtown because of some financial troubles. >>> dozens of ships made their way into baltimore's inner harbor for the start of sail-ebration, a week-long commemoration of the war of 1812. 14 vessels will spend the week in baltimore. most will be open to the public and in addition to the ships, there will be a free air show on saturday and sunday featuring the blue angels. always a treat. this runs through next tuesday. >>> it's pretty normal for teens to be a little nervous when they're learning how to drive, but there is one north carolina teenager who had an especially rough first time behind the wheel. >> there is a kid about 8, 9, no more than 10 in the driver seat and he drove off! >> yeah, police say they got several calls

university ohio in the history of architecture and completed her ma from the smithsonian associates and corcoran college of art designs history of masters program in 2010 with a thesis entitled pierre antoine seating furniture for the white house, evolution within the interior. miss jones is the curator of the washington winter shows exhibition. treasures of the first families and will be curating the 2013 exhibit as well. she is an independent lecturure on topics related to early 19th century american in white house history. institutions she has spoken for include the smithsonian institution, society of the cincinnati, american institute of architects, national trust for historic preservation, pca, aca, national society of colonian dumbarton house and the smithsonian gallery. welcome leslie jones. >> good evening. thank you for choosing to spend your thursday night here with us at the maryland historical society. that was a very generous introduction. thank you, mark. we are going to go ahead and get started. i believe i'm queueing to you for slides. thank you. oh, the terrible velvet curtains.

. >> offer your shouts on the corcoran gallery of arts decision.m holding up a series of public meetings. the first at are 6:30 p.m. they are thinking of selling its downtown building for financial reasons. >>> they have been together longer than most humans have been alive. >> aftercentury, a pair of giant turtles are calling it quits. they have been together almost since birth. long-time love has apparently soured. staff at the zoo in austria says one turtle has been attacking the other. the zoo tried a little marriage counseling, offered good mood food. they think the pair simply can't stand the sight of each other any more. >> you think they could make it work out. >> sometimes it's time to move on. ♪ ♪ [ multiple sounds making melodic tune ] ♪ [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, every innovation, every solution, comes together for a single purpose -- to make the world a safer place. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. >>> a busy night for d.c. police. a deadly stabbing and a shooting near an outdoor

>> bash ka corcoran thinks it takes a buyer eight seconds to decide whether or not they want the househe real estate nod. like yes or nod. you know right away. >> and if you've been married more than ten years, it turns into the brow. >> let's look at some houses. this is out of rockford, michigan. >> these are not expensive fixups. here is the louse that has to be the lonelyiest house in america. what is the fixup on this house? just warm it up. plant three big bushes. it's interior and it just says welcome home. much better look. >> and window boxes. >> that's so easy. >> let's move to wilmington, north carolina. what is the issue with this house? >> this is a charming house, but it looks like a compost pile out front with that mulch. it just needs to be cleaned up. so leave the house alone. but fill those boxes with flowers and those two big round bushes. how jolly is that? that is $980. you'll get probably another $5,000 back on the house. >> what a difference. that's huge. >> sag harbor, new york. >> charming there. >> cute house. >> typical little cottage that everybody dreams ab

barbara corcoran.lympics and more. but first, this is "today" on nbc. ♪ >>> we're now back at 8:45 with the mayor of london, boris johnson. his city just wrapped up a huge event, the queen's diamond jubilee. now he's gearing up for the summer olympic games. but he's found time to write a new book called "johnson's life of london: the people that made the city that made the world." mr. mayor, it's good to have you. >> good morning, matt. >> we were there two days ago. >> you were. >> we flew across the pond together. how do you think the city did hosting the jubilee? >> it was a big kick for us. it was very important because everybody was watching us. the whole transport system had to work well, the security had to work well. and i think we came out fine. you've got a picture of me. that's right. >> yeah. where were you during that processional when the queen came in that open landau down the mile to buckingham palace? what seats did you have? >> i was with the crowd in trafalgar square standing there w

when we met christian knight, he was serving 79 years for murder at california state prison corcoran. >> just seeing christian the first time, you kind of knew he had some kind of story. very dramatic looking. you know, with all the tats and very intense. >> it turns out knight had several incredible stories but one involved his attempt to attack a sex offender at the los angeles county jail. >> got this freaking child molester on the tier. he's actually in the van talking about what he does. you know, i like to keep myself, hey, i don't lose my temper. keep myself calm, cool, and collective. that dude made me snap. i get in the van and i tell him, i'm going to rip the toilet off the wall. i'm going to bust through this frickin' glass. i'm going to drag it down the tier, and i'm going to bust through your glass and cut you up your [ muted ]. you're a dead man. yeah, yeah, yeah. then all you hear is steel bending. i got behind the toilet, pushed the toilet all the way back. long story short, i ripped the whole toilet off, wrapped my hands up with my socks, smashed through the glass. he

. >> we found an even more unlikely bond at california state prison corcoran. >> like anything.>> we were out on the yard shooting. i looked over and saw these guys petting something. at first i thought it was a kitten. and it ended up it was a gopher that they had tamed. >> shampoo, little baths, and let him run around the cell, ç feed him apples, lettuce. take care of them. they're good little pets. >> like the best little companion i ever had. >> a lot of the guys we ran into probably have never had anybody to love or anything or anybody to love them. and when you run into somebody who is -- you know adopted a gopher and it gives them some sort of outlet for affection. it's got to be a good thing. >> but we found a very different case of inmate creature bonding inside california's san quentin prison. >> i'm mike miller my real name. and the staff here call me birdman of san quentin. >> the first day i got here at san quentin, the birds seemed to have flocked to me for some reason. and i don't know they probably think i am the bird man of alcatraz. maybe they're mistaken beca

. >> in the exercise yard at california state prison corcoran, we met an inmate whose art is inspiredere you convicted for? >> i'm doing a parole violation for sales of marijuana. >> the yard is an interesting place because you never know who you're going to run into, you never know who you're going to talk to, you never know the personality, who they are. i kind of just started looking around and tried to find interesting-looking faces. i happened upon kevin moore. he started telling me that he's a rap artist. he is a ghost writer. >> i have a record deal waiting on me. death row records. for anybody, any rap fans that's listening, my akassassoon. and i got a demo coming out in a few months. if you're a rap fan, listen to it. >> when you start talking to inmates you are not sure what to believe. they start telling you these stories. you're kind of like say, all right. >> i have been a ghost writer in the rap industry for about 13 years. a lot of stuff i have written from behind these walls i have sold to other artists. that have been out there and been successful. >> i said, well, do

. >> the land incarcerates you were at corcoran state prison. >> referred to our csr for transfer andained. you have done your shoe related time. therefore, the recommendation is to release you to the rcgp. okay. do you have any problems with being released? >> yes, i got a problem to gp because i'm not a gp. i dropped out. >> you in a gang? >> yes, i am affiliated with a gang, yes. >> you're a dropout of what? >> out of the woods. but right now, i'm just concerned about my housing, where i'm going to be housed. that's all i'm worried about right now. >> by releasing him today, we can maim him a1 status and that will give him the opportunity to parole today. so it doesn't matter where you're going to be housed. we can go ahead and leash you and keep you here pending your parole. >> understand that, nasholm? >> yes, sir. >> if we grant you a one-time for the time you've been in ad seg, then they take this up and run it through records office and you parole today. do you understand that? >> yes, sir. >> okay. >> yeah. >> yes, sir. officially release you today. have a nice day. you'll be

so first-hand experience, value as it may be for court reporters like shahid or patrick corcoran of the british independent can't be the be-all and end-all either. sometimes being far away, not just from iraq, but from washington and all the thinking that goes on from the visibly claustrophobic world of american global policymaking has its advantages. sometimes being out of the experience really speaking allows you to open your eyes and taken a larger shape of things come which is often the obvious, even if little noted. i can't help thinking about a friend of find as opposed personal take on military commanders in afghanistan was they were trapped in american-made toxin capable of seeing beyond its boundaries of afghanistan. i have no doubt that being there is generally something to be desired. but if you take the personal pointers that you could often hardly matters where you are. thinking about the stars & stripes readers question, conclusion i've come to his base. it is not just where you go. it's also how you see what is there and no less important to you see that matters, which me

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