Word: grimness
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...faint glimmer of justice is piercing the grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners...
...Since then they have been assigned to serve more than 300 summonses and body attachments (special incarceration warrants for witnesses who don't want to be found). It can be a maddening chase at times. Wearing baggy street clothes with Kevlar vests underneath, the two troll the city's grim row houses looking for witnesses who are, as often as not, "in the game" themselves, part of the same shadowy and dangerous criminal class as the defendants. Even thugs are often afraid of what will happen if they are forced to testify, so Bowden and Conaway try to handle...
...After he's done sending flowers and apologies to Mr. Whittington, Cheney would do well to get in on the joke before it gets him. The situation in Iraq is too grim to let this metaphor linger. Jon Macks, a former political consultant who is now a writer for NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno told TIME by e-mail: "Yeah it?s a 9 out of 10, this is a Tonya Harding type whack on the knee story. I don't know yet what we'll be doing but it's like a drunk airline pilot-story where...
...have swayed the panel of Pan judges. But their description of her suggested treatment as "charmingly skewed" hints that they found an even better reason in the dark twists of McCaughrean's own imaginative fiction. Her 2004 novel, Not the End of the World, for example, describes in grim and blanchmaking detail life aboard the Ark with the zealous Noah, while all around the world drowns. And in last year's White Darkness, the best friend of Sym, a 14-year-old girl who's chronically shy and hard of hearing, is the famous (and long-dead) Antarctic explorer Lawrence...
Still, Bush faces some grim facts. A new TIME poll puts his approval rating at just 41%. Iraq remains unstable; senior citizens are having trouble with the Medicare prescription plan; and the government announced last week that the pace of economic growth in the final quarter of 2005 was the slowest in three years...