Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found it unnecessary to send any.) As loudly as the U.S. proclaims that it will never let any of those interned in Guantanamo enter the American mainland, many Cubans preparing to flee, as well as those already in Gitmo, refuse to believe it. Others might even prefer camp life with three meals a day in Guantanamo to hunger in Cuba...
...media within 45 days of an ex- offender's moving into a neighborhood. Governor Christine Whitman, who wants community notification only when an inmate is "really at risk of committing these kinds of offenses again," argues that too broad a law risks deluging the police with paperwork. Whitman would prefer to follow the lead of Washington State, whose notification laws are touted as model legislation. Those provisions strive to match the extent of the notification with the nature of the offender's crime and his chances of becoming a repeat offender. Residents learn of an ex-prisoner's presence...
...paycheck. Popping up along highways across the country, the supermarket-size playpens are quickly capturing the niche between mega-theme parks and video arcades. The range of activities -- batting cages, bumper boats, go-cart tracks -- lures exhausted parents, bored teenagers and desperate baby sitters who prefer to spend $5 on one good ride rather than a $40 flat rate for access to a dozen their kids...
When Kim Il Sung's firstborn son came into the world on Feb. 16, 1942, he was given the Korean name Jong Il. He was also called Yura, which is Russian. After all, he was born in Khabarovsk, in the Soviet Far East. North Korean mythographers prefer to obscure that unpatriotic nativity, claiming that their Dear Leader first saw light on sacred Mount Paektu -- the site, according to legend, where Korean civilization sprang into existence 5,500 years ago. Such official obfuscations have ensured that Kim Jong Il remains mostly myth himself, even as he succeeds his father and becomes...
...only because of the subject matter. Very few are the films made by and solely about lesbians. And lesbians in an honest light as opposed to the chauvinistic fantasy of two women having sex for his pleasure. Despite what they may be doing, said chauvinist still thinks they would prefer to have him, or gets off on the power he thinks he has over them. This film, I would say, will only be erotic for women who are sexually attracted to other women...