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...struggle to balance civil liberties with security. Allegations surfaced recently, for instance, that the former Social Democratic government of Gerhard Schröder deliberately left German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay despite the absence of evidence against him. Current Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was Schröder's chief of staff at the time, says he acted appropriately with the knowledge available to him then...
...opera house, spectacular though it may be, really transform a city best known for its paella and beaches into a top arts center? Can Calatrava's magnificent edifice produce the Bilbao effect - doing for Valencia what Frank Gehry's titanium-clad Guggenheim Museum did for the industrial Basque city to the north...
...Chicago and Indianapolis. In Chicago, Cary does suave, urbane things like thwart the bad guys at a high-rent art auction; in Indiana he gets attacked by a crop duster in a scene that makes the rural fields I used to run in look like a benighted dust bowl. Frank Sinatra sang about Chicago's Union Stockyards - but never about the Indianapolis stockyards I worked at in the summers with my grandfather...
...mythology, these are evil spirits that can assume human forms to do mischief. Mao had first used this expression during the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 to describe the intellectuals, many of whom were sent to labor camps for having taken up the Chairman's own invitation to offer frank and constructive criticism of the Communist Party.) In the office, Tao Feng was always full of self-assurance. Now he looked nervous and thoroughly beaten. He had lost a great deal of weight and seemed years older than only a few months ago. The young people behind me snickered...
...rebounds in 17 minutes. It was his first appearance after being inactive for the early part of the season with a back injury. “Anytime you get into a situation when your back is against the wall, you look for answers anywhere,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “That is what it became.” Finkton, who was the subject of a vocal cheering section in the Lavietes Pavilion stands, hit a free throw with 1:05 left to record the first point of his career, and Okereke, in his first career...