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Pitch: A darker novel about the conflict between an unstable woman trying to get her house back and the Iranian family that now lives...
FlyBy found alumni of the college and graduate schools—sometimes flanked by non-Harvard affiliated acquaintances—clinking wine glasses and crunching on almonds in a high ceiling, wood-paneled room at the back of the club...
...would close Guantánamo Bay within a year. He's not going to make that deadline, and the fact that nearly half of Guantánamo's remaining 200 detainees are from Yemen could delay the shutdown even longer. His plan relies on shipping most of those detainees back to their home countries, with a smaller number headed to a prison in Thomson...
...little more than terrorist advertising. The senior Administration official echoed that refrain, saying al-Qaeda has recently used Guantánamo as one of its "recruiting and motivational tools." Because of its notorious reputation, he said, it should be closed as quickly as possible. Critics counter that sending detainees back home - especially to poorer nations like Yemen (where unemployment hovers around 40%) - could allow them to attack again, especially if they were radicalized during their Guantánamo stay. And they maintain that sending such detainees to the Illinois prison - no matter how secure - will make it a tempting target...
...Water which has joined the stream cannot turn back," Mousavi wrote, apparently assuming a role that is less commander and more interpreter and spokesman for a movement that the government cannot seem to stem in spite of months of repressive action. "To execute, kill or imprison Karroubi and Mousavi will not solve the problem," Mousavi wrote. As for dangers to himself - "My blood is no different than that of other martyrs...