The prison break was the latest in a series of troubling developments here since President Obama declared the end of the American combat mission last week and celebrated the reduction of American troops to below 50,000 for the first time since the invasion in 2003.
During the Challenge, schools compete to improve recycling compliance, decrease contamination, raise awareness about consumption, and celebrate waste reduction.
Of course, not all businesses can celebrate a reduction in the tax burden.
This tricky calculus will allow President Obama to celebrate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions domestically, while ensuring that the fossil fuel and nuclear energy industry continue to grow.
While the reduction was celebrated, it came at a high price: the singling out of young black men, who make up 23% of the city's population yet accounted for more than 50% of the stops.
Friday, Lee and other state officials stopped at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles as part of a statewide bus tour to celebrate a dramatic reduction in the rate of uninsured Californians and promote the launch of open enrollment Saturday.
The 25percentt income tax rate reduction that arrived a year ago was celebrated in some corners, but is sure to be wiped away by the mammoth budget deficit and unpaid bills now accruing.
Though often dark and haunting, the fiction in the Myth series celebrated myth as a means of resisting life's reduction to (patriarchal? Western?) history-book 'facts'facts
And yet Ryan's being celebrated in the media as a "bold" advocate for deficit reduction, and he's Mitt Romney's right-hand man on the economy.
Nobody stripped experience down to its fundamentals more rigorously than Beckett in "Waiting for Godot," but it is hardly the kind of reduction that celebrates the simple things in life, that renews and refreshes, the aesthetic equivalent of a closet purge or a colonic irrigation.
