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Catching up on sleep later was not an option either. Hill slept in this manner five days a week, for nearly seven months straight...
...Department of Justice spokesman told TIME that while many alleged terrorists will be tried in federal criminal court, reformed commissions would be a "viable option" for certain cases, including those in which intelligence sources, methods and evidence could be compromised in a less restrictive setting. (See portraits of Gitmo detainees...
...what age did you start thinking, Oh, I have to break out of this? As soon as I realized that breaking out was an option. I had a little rebel fantasy pretty early on. When I graduated high school and moved on to college, that's when I began making decisions...
...Even if the skeptics are correct and a military victory over the Taliban remains unlikely, the next best option - negotiating some form of compromise with the Taliban, involving shutting out al-Qaeda and some form of power-sharing with the elected government - would require convincing the insurgents that they can't win on the battlefield. Surging tens of thousands more U.S. troops into the Afghan theater may be necessary if the goal is simply to fight this one to a tie. (Logistical constraints, however, suggest that the surge may be more of a dribble, with the U.S. currently lacking...
...been a long time since abstract art was a religion. For most artists now, it's just an option, a mode they can pursue or ignore as it suits them. But once it was a passion, a polemic, a faith. Wassily Kandinsky, one of its founders, could talk about geometric forms as though they were sacred images - and to him, they were. In a burst of high feeling he could argue, with a straight face, that "the contact between the acute angle of a triangle and a circle has no less effect than that of God's finger touching Adam...