Word: broking
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...case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. Officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determined that he was a parolee and informed his parole officer...
...broke my marriage up. I've gone through hell, I mean I'm a suspect up until yesterday," a tearful Carl Probyn, 60, told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, Calif...
...program's defenders, most notably former Vice President Dick Cheney, have long claimed that "high-value detainees" like al-Qaeda operatives Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah, initially resistant to interrogation, broke down under the coercive techniques and gave up crucial tips. The information they supplied, Cheney and other defenders have argued, helped to foil specific, imminent terrorist plots against the U.S. homeland, and thus saved thousands of American lives. (See TIME's pictures: "Do-It-Yourself Waterboarding...
...children will continue to be schooled at the orphanage. An Nhon Dong Elementary has agreed to provide textbooks and send teachers to the center, which some might see as a victory. The children, however, know it is nothing of the sort. Several broke down, says Sister Bao, when they heard that once again they would not be allowed to go to a "normal" school...
When I asked the woman behind the information desk at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this week where I could find some healthy food, she looked at me with surprise, broke into a bemused smile and responded gently, "You're at the Fair, honey...