Word: asylums
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...this country because it is another reminder that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a horrible blunder. As bad as Saddam Hussein was, it is impossible to believe that the Iraqi people are better off now than before our invasion. It is our shame that we have granted asylum to so few refugees. The President's pre-emptive war of choice must be judged by history as a crime against a people who did us no harm. James G. Whiteley Sr., Paducah...
...Ruskin, called him the supreme English painter of his day. His critics, and there were more of them all the time, thought his watercolors were "crude blotches" and his oils a "gross outrage." They also routinely called him insane (which hurt--his mother had died in Bedlam, the London asylum). Their complaints boiled down to the same thing. Turner made light tangible but things illegible. Or, as the essayist William Hazlitt put it in a still famous wisecrack, he made "pictures of nothing, and very like...
...processing: Can we speed it up?" He complained of the endless "bottlenecks" delaying entry even for those Iraqis who had risked their lives working for U.S. forces. Crocker pleaded with immigration and Homeland Security officials to fast-track the screening process so the State Department's recommended 7,000 asylum slots could be filled...
...Nearby, in the village's community hall, mayor Grin - elected on the SVP ticket - says the party's platform of fiscal conservatism and tightening asylum and naturalization laws, reflects the core values of his village: "The vast majority of people here relate to those ideas and follow faithfully the party's platform, whatever the issue...
...time, probably the foremost negro in England." Then there's the story of David Oluwale, a Nigerian who stowed away as a teenager to come to England in 1949, dreaming of becoming an engineer, was greeted with 28 days' incarceration and was later committed to an insane asylum for eight years. All these men were seen as foreigners, though their tragedies seem purely British...