Word: raided
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...British military fortress during World War II, and the 121-room Amara has housed itself in two former barracks. You'll be surprised at just how comfy they can be when someone besides an army engineer is in charge of the design. Two colonial-era buildings above an air-raid shelter are now home to 20 suites; a third contains a spa. The main building features a rooftop infinity pool and 91 rooms. Scattered elsewhere are 10 elegantly furnished villas...
...glee of a Republican Party saddled with corruption scandals, a federal grand jury handed up a 16-count indictment of Louisiana Democratic Congressman William Jefferson, 60, known for promoting Third World trade. The investigation shifted into high drama in May 2006, when the FBI conducted an unprecedented raid of Jefferson's congressional office and disclosed that it had earlier found $90,000 in cash in the freezer of his Washington home. The charges, which Jefferson denies, include money laundering, racketeering and soliciting more than $400,000 in bribes from a Kentucky-based technology company that sought business deals in Africa...
...term of the immigration debate, disavowed even by those who believe in its goals. But what are the alternatives to letting illegals stay? Deporting millions? Devising other punishments? Doing nothing at all? Few places have struggled with these questions as much as rural Beardstown, Ill., where an April immigration raid at the town's largest employer exposed a community that is both dependent on its undocumented workers and deeply resentful of their presence. Why legalizing the illegals makes sense for Beardstown - and for America...
...Many of Beardstown's white residents were pleased by the federal raid on the massive pork-processing plant at the edge of town, owned by multinational meatpacker Cargill Meat Solutions (the April 4 operation targeted a subcontractor that was cleaning the plant, not Cargill itself). The raids netted 62 people, most of whom were sent to federal detention centers that night and later deported. "It's good they got those people," Oscar Cluney, 18, told me as he hung out with his friends in the parking lot of the local Save-a-Lot store. "The whole situation here makes...
...It’s a school that my family has been involved with since I left here.†Apart from the investigation and the implications for Jefferson’s own political career, the case has generated controversy in others ways. An FBI raid on Jefferson’s congressional office last May set off a row between the Congress and the White House, with then-House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and then-Minority Leader Pelosi issuing a rare joint statement condemning the raid as a violation of the doctrine of separation of powers. And Jefferson?...