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...leaders to liberal college students. These people, according to the de facto President, were neither alive nor dead; they were just desaparecidos.But what did that mean? At illegal detention centers, they were tortured in the name of “national security” or their keepers’ dark pleasures. Babies born to captive mothers were given to officers, thus erasing their identities. Thousands ended their existence in “death flights”: airplanes from the Buenos Aires airport threw them into the river with deadweights to leave no trace. Fleeting memories drowning in the silence...
...record is by no means poor—half the tracks are quite good, and four are genuinely impressive. It’s just that they follow, and do not live up to, the raw sexual energy and dark romanticism of the band’s impressive debut...
...which already offer minors. Even so, some professors expressed unease with the plan, and Spelke emphasized that the EPC would undertake a “very serious” review of the program after five years. “I must say, this vote is a shot in the dark,” Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum said at the meeting, prefacing her comments by saying she would vote for the legislation. “I can’t tell whether this is an entrepreneurial effort by the faculty or opening a Pandora?...
...served time in prison along with Sinn Fein head Gerry Adams in the 1970s, is certain to further complicate matters. Unionist leaders like the Rev. Ian Paisley say they have doubts about whether the IRA has genuinely laid down its weapons, and maintained that the killing "has put a dark cloud" over the pending talks...
...last-ditch effort to galvanize Iraqi pols, Rice and Straw traveled to Baghdad together over the weekend in the hopes that their combined clout would make an impact where individual visits, calls and messages through envoys had failed. To keep their mission secret, they waited until well after dark Saturday to take off from Liverpool, where Straw had been showing Rice around his constituency. They used Rice?s 757 and, knowing that Straw was suffering from a lingering bronchial infection, she insisted he sleep on the pull-out bed in her cabin. To his embarrassment, Straw learned only the next...