Word: gate
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...busy night market, then turned down a long, narrow road called Jinshui Alley. It was midnight, the street was dark, and safety was on Wang's mind. Six months earlier she had stopped wearing gold jewelry whenever she had to take this walk. As Wang opened the metal gate to her new, middle-class apartment block, an attacker struck from behind, smashing her head with a brick. Wang stumbled, screamed and struggled desperately to get inside the apartment building. She didn't make it. Her assailant spun her around and plunged a watermelon knife into her chest seven times. Then...
After 16 years of wearing prison-issue denim, Madison Hobley barely had time to change into the suit his wife had brought him before he was rushed out of the gate last week by Illinois officials, an exonerated man. Condemned to death for the murder of his first wife, baby son and five other people in a 1987 arson case, Hobley--who had no previous convictions--insisted that police had beaten and suffocated him to get a confession. Years later, his lawyers claimed that crucial evidence had not been made available to them by prosecutors. Yet for all the outrage...
...TELL THAT WAR is drawing close is to visit an army town. In Hinesville, Ga.--adjacent to Fort Stewart, home of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division--the barbershop outside the base's main gate has started trimming women's hair because the number of $5 buzz cuts favored by G.I.s has dropped 70%. By the time the entire division is shipped out to Kuwait, the town's population will have shrunk by a third...
Cherie Gets a -Gate...
...also spoke with Foster's lawyers about the impending deportation. As the tattle total rose, Cherie was accused not of illegality but of a clumsy cover-up. She choked back tears last week as she read a statement, confessing, "I am not a superwoman." On the Monica scale, "Cherie-gate" doesn't have much weight. But it has stained Cherie's rep as a bright, popular woman, and some of the mud could stick to her PM husband. For another lawyer's experienced opinion on the subject, Cherie might give Hillary a call...