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...must have intensified because of casual use on the Internet, right? I don't really think so. The thing is, people do use this word all the time. The fact that before the Internet you weren't necessarily exposed to it doesn't mean it wasn't out there...
...best thing about these local pros, besides the fact that they can rock a Red Sox hat by day and designer dresses by night, is that they recognize our large contribution to Boston’s fashion street cred. Meghan A. Mills, co-owner of Serenella, a Newbury boutique, loves watching college kids come into her store. "They’re trendy—less hipster than New York. They step it up…I’m sort of jealous," laments the Bryant University graduate who remembers Doc Martens being all the rage around the time...
...surprising to me that he was the first African American selected,” said Michael C. York, New Hampshire State Librarian and member of the Board of Judges. York said that he was not aware of this until the fact was emphasized in the weeks leading up to the ceremony, particularly in light of controversy surrounding Gates’ arrest this summer...
There is another embarrassing fact about the ICTR. The tribunal is overburdened in part because referring cases back to Rwanda is politically fraught. Courts in France, Germany and Britain have refused to allow genocide suspects to be extradited to Rwanda for fear that they will not face a fair trial. "We have a lot of concerns about whether the Rwandan judiciary is independent," a Rwanda human-rights researcher, who did not wish to be named because that is their organization's policy, tells TIME. "Judges are being told how to decide cases; they don't always have the freedom...
...original version of this story has been changed to reflect the fact that the Rwanda human-rights researcher spoke anonymously because that is their organization's policy...