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According to the Journal, the panel would consist of ranking retired officers who were empowered to recommend removal of former peers deemed to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities.”

The judge is equating immigrants lacking legal status with terrorists by likening them to “unlawful combatants.”

The recall campaign against Thao accused her of lacking the “competency, judgment and ability to lead what was once a great American city.”

She’s someone I think I could get into for a while because she’s such an oddball but is seriously good at what she does, just her people skills are lacking.

Anolik is less charitable about Babitz’s subsequent work, which she considers to be attenuated and strained, lacking the buzzy exuberance of “Slow Days, Fast Company.”