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These members are close to former party chief Ichiro Ozawa and have been protesting the party brass's recent decision to distance themselves from the scandal-tainted senior lawmaker.

Kan Passes Budget, But Tests Loom Yuka Hayashi 2011

The Jets brass's spin notwithstanding, even Mason's former teammates wondered if there was a message to the locker room wrapped in the move.

Finding Locker Room Harmony Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011

Regardless of the top brass's skepticism, "this report is going to be perhaps the most effective lobbying tool that repeal advocates will have over the next two weeks in the Senate," said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a group pushing to end the ban.

'Don't ask, don't tell' report: Little risk to allowing gays to serve openly Ed O'Keefe 2010

McChrystal, of course, is betting that after a 30-year scorched earth campaign by the authoritarian right to insist that America's elected civilian leadership do nothing but rubber-stamp the military brass's demands, President Obama doesn't have the guts to pull a Harry Truman and fire his ass for rank insubordination like Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

David Sirota: McChrystal's Assault on the Chain of Command and the Constitution - and the Need for Pushback 2009

Jack Murtha is the Penatgon brass's mouthpiece on the hill.

In Leadership Test, Pelosi Bets the House 2009

It is the military brass's reflexive empire-building that builds an empire.

A Black and Disgraceful Site Freedland, Jonathan 2009

Obama's admonition and the absence of self-serving, anti-Muslim inflammatory antics or statements by elected officials, as well as the army brass's bending over backward to tamp down any talk that Hasan's act was anything more than the crazed act of an over-the-edge military guy took the edge off the mob stirrings.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Good Reason for Muslims to Fear Ft. Hood Backlash 2009

If you employ 30 reporters at $60,000 each (not including benefits) that's $1.8 million a year (that might be less than the NYT brass's bonus checks).

Lylah Alphonse's response to Brian Mooney 2009

Gay-rights activists say the brass's fears border on the hysterical.

Gays And The Military 2008

The gambit, performed at night in heavy seas, earned him the brass's flattering attention.

A Matter Of Honor 2008