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...same wrong basis for suspicion? 25 years of conflict in Northern Ireland was fueled, not solved, by targeted stigmatization. I.R.A. suspects the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six spent years in jail before you secured their release. Do their cases offer lessons for today? I think these cases were an object lesson in how not to do things. It was a very belated dawning that unless an entire national community and the reasons for the conflict were understood, and a political solution devised, there could never be an end to the armed struggle. Now that message has been ignored - there...
...paper they put on exam tables. I stabilized the leg while she slid him over. The door opened, the cops saw the situation and flooded in. They helped roll him back out - pretty quickly - and I was left alone for a moment in the X-ray room. A metal object glinted from under the table paper. It was a Leatherman Wave - a multipurpose tool that held a small knife along with a dozen other implements. Did I want to make a big deal of our tech being left alone with a possible weapon? They had the guy, she was safe...
...year later, he converted and soon joined Hizb ut-Tahrir, a political party known for its radical views that is banned in many Muslim countries. Harwood, 45, is now a spokesman for the group; he says it is opposed to terrorism. Although his life choices may make him an object of scrutiny by his government--Hizb ut-Tahrir has been on Britain's watch list since the July 2005 terrorist attacks in London--he has no regrets. "I found that Islam was giving me good, solid answers to my questions," he says. "It wasn't difficult for me to embrace...
...Karr's past that now has become the object of obsessive scrutiny. He will be officially deported from Thailand this weekend, and accompanied home by the U.S. officials who raided his shabby quarters in Bangkok on Wednesday. Doubts about the veracity of his confession have only multiplied since he volunteered it to the world on Thursday. But it's probably safe to assume that Karr's fruitless quest to become a grade-school teacher has finally come...
...doubt” caused libraries to improve their security, such as by installing closed-circuit televisions, restricting access to certain materials, increasing supervision, and starting to mark material more aggressively to make stolen items harder to sell.Because of the relative ease of concealing a sharp object intended to be used for removing maps from books, map thieves are difficult for library security personnel to discover.“The problem is that what you need to remove a map is so small that it’s almost impossible to detect,” Wilkie said.—Staff...