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...parliamentarians, which blasted internment for foreign terror suspects, also criticized the government for not trying alternatives that might be equally effective, like electronic tagging and intensive surveillance, or giving prosecutors more tools to convict terrorists in open court, like admitting wiretap evidence. Many think Blunkett is already planning to retreat to this safer ground. Outside the courthouse where Mzoudi was acquitted stands a slate-gray stone monument inscribed simply, "1933." A nearby plaque remembers those "abused, killed and treated with contempt by the judges and prosecutors" of Hamburg during the Third Reich. It is a reminder that...
...then never threatened us again--not without the discovery of a vaccine or cure to curtail the microbe. Some diseases, such as chicken pox, gradually become endemic to man and eventually result, if we are lucky, in nothing more than a mild childhood illness. Others, such as Ebola, retreat back to whatever animal reservoir they came from, stalking humanity from their hidden lair, only occasionally lashing out to bloody a village or crash a rural hospital. But diseases do not, as a rule, just go away...
...benefits of the weekend (cost: $925) inspired Margee to want to follow up with the Schnarch nine-day retreat ($2,400). Ken, less enthusiastic, offered a counterproposal. "I cut a deal with her. I said I would go with her to the retreat if I could go on a two-week bike trip in the French Alps." Sounds like Schnarchian self-differentiation in action...
...have to do this all together, you cannot do it in pieces,” says Clarice J. Kestenbaum, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University. “I would just take a weekend retreat, and get the entire program shaped up, computerized, with connections between everyone, all together. One weekend would...
...think it was easier because we knew their stuff so we weren’t caught off guard and having to hold on to retreat,” he added...