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...police headquarters, suspects were routinely handcuffed to metal chairs, questioned for as long as 24 hours and often beaten. The officers sometimes were careful to leave no bruises: one technique was to cushion a suspect's head with a phone book and hammer it with a heavy object. But on other occasions, the newspaper reported, officers beat suspects with lead pipes, blackjacks, brass knuckles, handcuffs, chairs and table legs. At times, other suspects were forced to watch the beatings through one-way windows and told by officers that they would get the same treatment if they did not cooperate...
Much time is spent on an eye exercise in which Bo-and-Peepers concentrate on a single object for up to an hour. They are "out of orbit" (i.e., exempt from the twelve-minute work cycles) for this, and for lectures by Bo and Peep. The Two proclaim that Bo has been Jesus, Elijah and Moses in his former lives. The spacecraft is imminently expected. It will carry believers to an enigmatic "garden" where they will get "energy" from their coequal, the King of Kings, alias Chief of Chiefs, the god who created planet earth. Believers will live eternally...
...Last year TIME cited the Chief Justice's grim prediction in a cover story about "Those #@!!! Lawyers." The cover this week examines the second object of Burger's concern, His Honor's increasingly powerful colleagues on the bench. To assess the rapid expansion of judicial authority in the U.S. and the delays, anachronisms and inefficiencies that plague the nation's courts, TIME correspondents interviewed dozens of lawyers and judges across the country, including the studiously reclusive Chief Justice himself. Reports Washington Correspondent Doug Brew: "Chatting with Burger in a quiet corner of his office while...
Laws that spew from legislatures at the rate of over 100,000 a year inevitably mean more lawsuits. Too many lawyers use their skills to drag out cases. The object may be to wear down a less well financed opponent, or put off an unfavorable judgment. Sometimes it is simply a matter of greed, of contriving any excuse to keep fees rolling in. Favorite devices include making endless pretrial motions on one or another point of procedure, obtaining postponements (continuances) from the court, requesting huge amounts of information from the other side in the pretrial discovery process, or just burying...
...time and another who does not. In fact, perhaps surprisingly, not everybody likes air conditioning. The necessarily sealed rooms or buildings make some feel claustrophobic, cut off from the real world. The rush, whir and clatter of cooling units annoys others. There are even a few eccentrics who object to man-made cool simply because they like hot weather. Still, the overwhelming majority of Americans have taken to air conditioning like hogs to a wet wallow...