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...reconstructive surgery, no house with a pool in suburban Phoenix. Baltimore authorities had to stretch their $400,000 annual budget in 2005 to accommodate 184 families in hiding--a few with as many as 11 members. Although some are relocated near family as far away as California, most are loath to leave Maryland and wind up languishing in motels just outside the city limits. "I wish we could just make our witnesses more comfortable," says Goldberg. "We need a lot more money...
...Most insurgent groups in Iraq are loath to target women because they know it would gain them no public sympathy. If anything, ordinary Iraqis (even those who sympathize with the insurgency) regard such kidnappers with contempt. That's one of the reasons why groups that have kidnapped women have tended to adopt new and obscure names - they don't want their real names tainted by association...
...problems. A few days after the kids were enrolled in the suddenly overcrowded local school, they learned they would be bused to a different one 25 miles away, arriving late to that school and leaving early every day. Packed like crayfish on the road for an hour, they were loath to do homework...
...chronic homeless seen on the streets begging for money.Dealing with this startling and, frankly, embarrassing statistic for the world’s richest nation will require confronting the fundamental problem with homeless policy: we all want to help these people with illness and addiction, but we are loath to impose on those who won’t help themselves and deprive them of freedom.The only way out of this quandary is to finally acknowledge that most of the troubled homeless are not truly free in any meaningful sense of the word. They are slaves to drugs, alcohol, and illnesses that...
Networks are usually loath to fix what's not broken, with good reason. The West Wing--that other White House drama--went into a ratings spiral after its creator, Aaron Sorkin, left the show in 2003. And the CiC change comes at a critical time. An out-of-the-box top 10 show, it has replaced The West Wing as the darling of pundits and pols. It has been cited as evidence that a woman could win in 2008, and producer Steven Cohen, a former Bill and Hillary Clinton press aide, even says it could help...