Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lucked out--I think I've hit the perfect combination of a serious job and a low-pressure (not to mention money-making) one at Barnes and Noble. Although my only day off is Sunday, I usually find ample time to hang out with friends, play a round of golf or even head to a Yankees game...
Although Turkey hasn?t executed anyone since 1984, its government is under intense domestic pressure to hang the man it has held personally responsible for the more than 30,000 deaths caused by the Kurdish insurgency and the government?s own crackdown. But the sentence is now due to go before an appeals court, and will also be appealed by Ocalan at the European Court of Human Rights, so Ankara will have plenty of time to allow passions to cool before it takes a decision. Ocalan?s capture and conviction may have eliminated any security threat he may pose...
Neither the verdict nor the sentence was ever in doubt; now Turkey faces a political decision over whether to hang its most hated enemy. Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a Turkish court Tuesday. The death sentence ?- mandatory for treason ?- goes automatically to an appeals court, where it is expected to be upheld. Then it?s up to parliament and the president to sign off on the hanging ?- and although Turkey hasn?t executed anyone in 15 years, the clamor for Ocalan?s head may prove irresistible. The brutal Kurdish-nationalist insurgency...
...There are no problems, there are no hang-ups, there are no obstacles," she said...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard superintendant will provide you with "poster gum," which is basically useless. Find other ways to hang pictures, or get used to the minimalism of blank walls...