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...rollers zeroed in on my shoulders, switching to a caressing and tapping motion, I started to enjoy it. The viselike grip of the air bags on my calves had me somewhat concerned, but realizing that resistance was futile, I finally let my left hand flop into the curved hand rest. Soon, pulsing air cushions were working their magic. With my free hand, I pushed a button that directed the chair to start in on my legs, hips and lower back. Ahh. That's it. Perfect. This nightmare was turning into a dream--until someone said, "Time...
...presented; conferences between lawyer and client can be monitored; those found guilty (by two-thirds majority) will face an appeals panel whose members are appointed by the Secretary of Defense; and, contrary to European norms, they can be executed. More than 200 M.P.s from all parties have signed a motion calling on the British inmates at Guantánamo to be sent home for trial. Others think the tribunals could be made to work, but only with a major overhaul. Says Michael Ancram, the Conservative shadow foreign secretary: "The defendants must have their rights respected. The charges they face must...
...been among the first to develop, 30 years earlier, the concept of a federal compromise, where both the national government and the state governments could have sovereign powers. And as the Constitutional Convention was about to break down in the hot Philadelphia summer of 1787, he set in motion the process that would break the impasse and, to a large extent, shape the new nation...
Finally, he incorporated some compromises suggested by others into a specific motion. Representatives to the lower House would be popularly elected and apportioned by population, but in the Senate "the Legislatures of the several States shall choose and send an equal number of Delegates...
...program that all kinds of organized-crime figures want. But really this movie is a tribute to bikini waxing, an excuse to get the Angels (and their nemesis, the shockingly lissome Demi Moore) as near naked as the rating administrators will permit and set them into erotically charged sadomasochistic motion. This will please the young-male audience. The fact that such good guys as the movie presents are hunky, passive wusses will please their dates. So will the fact that the bad guys--who are legion and perpetually sneering--manifestly deserve to be beaten senseless in variously artful ways...