Word: closedness
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Senator Graham favors the modifications to the military-commission system that Obama has proposed - and he favors one more: "Let's not kid ourselves. We're handing out de facto life sentences here, and there should be some sort of civilian review." So Graham - who believes these procedures should be...
The Obamas' marriage has a history of tension around chores: as his career took him away for long stretches, Barack admitted, "my failure to clean up the kitchen suddenly became less endearing." Michelle smiles about this and says, "That's off the table." Now they live in a house with...
The report lists the sexual, physical and emotional abuse - including rape, molestation and severe beatings - inflicted on children in about 100 so-called industrial schools, most of which had closed by the 1970s. These were state-funded institutions run by Roman Catholic orders such as the Christian Brothers or Sisters...
Two confirmed “swine flu” cases at Cambridge’s King Open School have not caused sufficient alarm to temporarily close the building, even as a multitude of suspected flu cases led city officials to close Boston Latin School, less than five miles away, for...
"The state needs to give us answers," da Silva says. "We want an ethical public-security policy." Police chiefs have so far refused to comment on the report, but the authorities have defended officers and pointed out that it was not the police that closed the cases but judges. The...