Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Prisons are not safe places: they create more crime than they cure and the risk of victimization by violent or sexual assault is at least times more for people in prison than in normal society. It is despicable that we take away people’s liberty and dignity so readily under mass incarceration. Worse, while under the state’s so-called care, they are placed in toxic, dangerous, and frightening environments, and we are surprised when they commit more crimes after their release. Increasing the number of correctional officers and placing people in solitary confinement...
...reopening of the crossings. Egypt will most likely agree to enhanced mechanisms for policing the smugglers' tunnels, but those tunnels were also Gaza's economic lifeline, and Egypt will insist they can be closed only if the legitimate crossings into Gaza are reopened to allow the flow of normal humanitarian and commercial traffic. That, of course, is what Hamas has been demanding, which will make Israel - and Egypt - uncomfortable. Neither wants to see the radical movement emerge from this confrontation with an enhanced status, but the scale of the humanitarian disaster wrought by Operation Cast Lead renders maintaining the economic...
...We’re talking poodles everywhere, so many that normal capital functions are not functioning. Banaarrrraaannnnggggggggggggggg...
...Royal most frequently in trouble - his reputation was recently tarnished by a video of him calling fellow soldiers by racial slurs - is known for his wild attitude, disdain for the media (his mother was Princess Diana, so can you really blame him?) and his fierce desire to live a "normal" life. But how normal can your life be when your grandmother is the Queen...
...very nice to be a sort of normal person for once; I think it's about as normal as I'm going to get." - Referring to his time in the military, Washington Post...