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...There's been a myriad of sporadic cease-fires in the Middle East over the last 60 years--indeed, over the last three millennia ... Still, I think this one's going to last. Call it a hunch." ROB CORDDRY...
...trial received as part of their treatment regular doses of risperidone, one of a class of drugs known as antipsychotics or neuroleptics, which have been linked to a host of harmful side effects, including movement disorders. Critics were indignant that a potentially dangerous drug was being used on a hunch, and suspected the influence of big pharma and its drive to expand its markets. "This," American mental health lobbyist David Oaks told Time in 2001, "is one of the most bizarre and counterproductive human experiments on young people I know about...
...This is a phenomenon that has become common among many of the multinational forces," he said. "No respect for citizens, smashing civilian cars and killing on a suspicion or a hunch. It's unacceptable." Iraqis saw in al-Maliki's outburst a bid to counter the perception that he is Washington's stooge. "Maybe he feels he needs to show he doesn't take orders from the American embassy," says Mithal Alussi, one of the few members of Parliament not aligned with any of the power blocs in al-Maliki's national-unity government...
...inspired adaptation “rainbow/streets,” they bring to life many common themes of African-American experience, from community to the innocence of youth to the power of love. Director Jon E. Gentry ’07 first proposed combining the two plays on a hunch that adapting them to work together would produce a work just as powerful, and more comprehensive as to gender realities. He has found enthusiastic and capable support blackC.A.S.T. producers Shawna J. Strayhorn ’07, Kimberly D. Williams ’07, and Miles A. Johnson...
...shoes require 120 different stages of assemblage, and each pair is made by hand and cut from a single hide so that the shoe's grain is consistent. The shoemaking process begins inside the patternmaking room?which Andrea refers to as the intelligence center?where a dozen engineers hunch over computer screens, carefully devising the patterns for each shoe?some entail as many as 70 different pieces. Down the hall, the modelist carves up each style's last by hand, a technique few manufacturers actually have in-house. Finally, the leather pieces will be chosen by the company expert, Antonio...