I even acted as lifeguard for the kids one day.

I applied for a job as a lifeguard at the community pool.

Lifeguard Capt. Larry Giles said at a media briefing that a shark had been spotted in the area a few weeks earlier, but it was determined not to be a dangerous species of shark.

Historically, the biggest threat to the IMF has been irrelevance. It was almost made redundant in the 1970s, when the US floated the dollar, only to be saved in 1982 by the Mexican debt crisis, which propelled it into the role of global financial lifeguard.

A peacekeeper who would exploit the vulnerabilities of a wounded population already the victim of all that is tragic and cruel in war is really no different than a physician who would violate the patient entrusted to his or her care or than the lifeguard who drowns the very people in need of rescue.