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...stay up until five a.m. and sleep in until noon. Ian suffers from mild carpal-tunnel syndrome, but that doesn’t stop him from playing five or six days a week, occasionally eight hours in a day. He usually has no more than 10 tables open (He has a friend with ADHD who juggles...
...being held at Guantánamo Bay. President Obama has pledged to close the detention facility, although a precise timetable has yet to be completed. Federal officials toured Standish at least once last summer. Granholm said she told the officials that she wasn't going to be open to the idea "unless they could demonstrate this wouldn't put a target on Michigan. It'd be a difficult sell, politically." David Fathi, U.S. program director at Human Rights Watch in Washington, urges caution in the rush of states moving into the business of transporting prisoners. "There's a risk that...
...King wants whatever business his town can get. With the number of empty homes in Standish rising, when the prison closes, he says, "it's going to snowball." Says King, after returning home from his teaching job one recent evening: "The No. 1 option is to keep the prison open. It doesn't really matter who pays the bills...
...public interest. He says the school will vehemently contest the prosecutor's request in court and will only turn over on-the-record documents and statements - not background information or any private grades or grading criteria. "It's simply beyond belief that [prosecutors] who are committed to courts being open and understood by the public would want to stop anyone from covering them," Lavine tells TIME. (Read about Texas, the kinder, gentler hang-'em-high state...
...Though governments are aware of the dangers of an uncoordinated exit, they prefer to keep their options open, since they must also address domestic political concerns. That means clearly defined time frames or targets for any exit could prove hard to achieve. The financial crisis "is affecting differently every country. Every country will have to define its exit strategy in its own time," Portugal's Finance Minister, Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, reportedly said at a conference of European Union ministers earlier this month in Sweden. "I don't think that we can have a precise, or a common, schedule...