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...military prison at Guantánamo Bay passed, a Justice Department--led task force recommended that about 35 detainees be tried in civilian or military court--and that nearly 50 be held indefinitely without charges, government sources told the Washington Post. The ACLU said such a move would reduce the camp's closure to a "symbolic gesture...
...last wish was that it be burnt should he die before its completion, a worst-case scenario that came to pass in 1977 when the complications of fever took him in Switzerland. The literary world at once divided in two: the âpublishâ camp happy to get their hands on whatever they could from the man they considered a genius, and their âperishâ antagonists urging incineration lest any imperfection blacken the Nabokovian halo. One might assume that the recent green light points to some newly unearthed document or deep philosophical revelation...
...would also deprive the opposition leaders - mostly clerics and former government officials - of their base of authority and legitimacy. The more radical the protest movement becomes, the smaller its chances of winning the backing of those unhappy with the status quo but not willing to commit to the opposition camp. (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...more book, combining "Carpenters" and "Seymour," in 1963, though in a foreword he promised readers that more Glass stories were under way. Two years later there was that final long story in the New Yorker, called "Hapworth 16, 1924," which purports to be a letter home from summer camp by a wildly precocious 7-year-old Seymour. After that, the signal shuts down. Salinger was occasionally spotted in public but spoke publicly only on rare occasions...
...Instead, the conference created a bounce of energy, not real momentum, but enough to buoy hopes of progress, with Karzai reaching out to some of those currently outside the government camp at the tribal jirga assembly he plans to convene within weeks. He also plans to convene an international conference in Kabul in the spring, although recent Taliban attacks in the heart of the capital have raised security fears over that event...