Word: absents
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...public are yoked together. When you are polite not just to your friends and family, but to everyone with whom you come into contact, a network of trust is established in a society. Trust is the bedrock upon which social and economic exchange is built. Where trust is absent, suspicion rules; you deal only with those you know firsthand, which atomizes society and diminishes the range of human experience...
...Hamburg cell - which excluded Mzoudi. Prosecutors wanted the US to produce Binalshibh for live cross-examination, or at least cough up the full transcript of his interrogation, so they could try to prove him a liar. But fearing their intelligence work would be compromised, the Americans refused. Absent proof of Mzoudi's knowing complicity, the court had to release him. It's a good thing for Mzoudi he doesn't live in Britain. As he was being acquitted last week, 14 men, foreigners like Mzoudi, were languishing in high-security prisons in the U.K., facing indefinite detention as suspected terrorists...
When war is acceptable, it is only as the endpoint of the collective judgment of a broad-based, trustworthy alliance of parties. Despite Mather’s claims to the contrary, this is sadly absent in the present conflict. Louie (of Louie’s) and three or four guys in a DeWolfe blocking group do not a coalition make...
Hall also praised the play of freshmen Audrey Duboc and Lydia Williams, who were bumped up to No. 2 and 3 on the ladder, respectively, with the Crimson’s usual No. 2—junior intercollegiate No. 8 Lindsey Wilkins—absent from the match at a job interview...
Glaringly absent from both singles and doubles play against the Crimson Tide was junior co-captain Courtney Bergman, who remains sidelined by a debilitating knee injury that has kept her out of competition since late October. Bergman—who is ranked No. 25 on the collegiate singles circuit and teams with classmate and co-captain Susanna Lingman for the No. 49 doubles team in Division I-A—regularly draws the toughest opponent while playing in the No. 1 position and provided a bright spot for a squad that struggled to recapture last spring’s success...