Word: procession
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...modern medicine as much as the success of the modern production of beliefs. The modern health-care narrative is so firmly entrenched that it needs no introduction. You are sick; you visit the doctor; he diagnoses the illness; he prescribes the appropriate medication; you get better. Often this process, and not the actual treatment, cures us with its normality. This is why 55 percent of Chicago doctors have prescribed a placebo treatment to their patients...
...House, where many conservative Blue Dog Democrats have said they will not vote for a bill that contains a public option, wrangling over the proposal is not quite so public. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in the process of merging bills from the three committees there with jurisdiction over health care, and the design of the public plan is one of the sticking points. The original version of the House bill contained a public option that would have set its reimbursement rates above, but still tied to, Medicare rates. But an amendment that passed in the House Energy Committee would...
Extradition is the legal process by which one country returns a fugitive to another country where that person has been accused or convicted of a crime. It's often a lengthy and complicated procedure whose specifics are determined through treaties signed by individual governments. Generally, extraditions apply only crimes that exist in both countries, and to people hiding out in nations other than their own. (Governments almost never surrender their own citizens, hence Polaski's ability to evade arrest for over 30 years.) Political crimes are rarely extraditable because countries don't want to be accused of aiding a coup...
...with a treaty, though, high profile extraditions can take years to complete. Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was living in New York Cit? in 1964 when authorities discovered she had actually been a guard at Ravensbruck, a Nazi concentration camp. She was stripped of her U.S. citizenship but the slow legal process - both Germany and Poland wanted to extradite her - kept her in the the country until 1973, when she was finally sent to West Germany. And even though former Panamanian general Manuel Noriega finished his U.S. prison sentence in 2007, he still remains in jail while the legal system decides whether...
Given Polanski's decision to fight his extradition and the fact that three countries are involved in the process, he most likely will not set foot on U.S. soil for some time. Polanski is currently being held by Swiss authorities, although his lawyers filed a motion for his release - the first in what will probably be a long legal battle with a lot of paperwork...