Word: interiorities
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...around accusations co-defendants made to police, but have since recanted. The embarrassing reversal followed allegations that security forces tortured suspected gia members during investigations into the 1995 bombings. A book, Place Beauvau: The Hidden Face of the Police, published in early February, explores security operations under successive French Interior Ministers, and quotes former police officers as saying they had seen suspected extremists brutalized, given electric shocks and otherwise abused. In response, current Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy ordered an internal police investigation, and promised action against any wrongdoing. But independent terrorism expert Roland Jacquard says that cases of security forces...
...disembowelled Hilles Library, which is set to become new space for student groups. I wasn’t expecting to be impressed. In just a couple of months, I was certain, the once-iconic Hilles would be transformed into a kind of inside-out Pompidou Centre with an interior beset by soul-killing bathroom stalls...
...with an unprecedented illustration of the delicate fault-line running through present day Iraq in the ongoing struggle between Shiites and Sunnis. In the two days since the Golden Mosque bombing, sectarian violence has claimed the lives of at least 138 Iraqis, most of them Sunni Muslims. Additionally, the Interior Ministry has confirmed attacks by sectarian militias and armed rioters on 90 Sunni mosques in Baghdad alone. It is worth noting, however, that the response has not been entirely violent: The New York Times described yesterday’s Shiite demonstrations as “mostly peaceful...
...possible. Accompanying documents usually describe the contents in general terms. If the box moves through intermediate ports before it enters the U.S., the container manifest typically indicates only the details known to the final transportation carrier. For instance, a container could start in Central Asia, travel to an interior port in Europe, move by train to the Netherlands, cross the Atlantic by ship to Canada and then move by rail to Chicago. The manifest submitted to U.S. customs often will say only that the container is being shipped from Halifax and originated from Rotterdam. If a container is destined...
...paint in the first four minutes, en route to 43 on the game, as it hopped out to a 10-3 lead. “Brown was able to get too close to the rim all night long,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. Along with interior scoring, the Bears outrebounded the Crimson by five, a dramatic turnaround from the first time the two teams met, with Harvard winning the game and the battle of the boards by 14 in that one. “We talked about having some pride tonight,” Brown coach Glen...