Word: roam
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Even preserves with no baited killings and lots of room to roam may be less of a square deal than they seem. "If a ranch advertises itself as having 3,500 acres, you need to know if that space is open or broken down into pens and whether there's protective cover or the ground is clear," says Richard Farinato, director of the Humane Society's captive-wildlife protection program...
...mute during the public assault, mayhem and murder. The guardians of the law handed selected areas for an average of two days to the lawless of their preference, while some group of Indians paid an indescribable price in blood. For these mass lynchings have an almost celebratory air. Mobs roam the street as if on some gruesome holiday during which they have been released from all the codes of humanity, chatting as they roam, roaring as they kill. Fire and sword is not a metaphor in my India...
...represented by the Science Center and the distant and alluring Quad is Frontierland. The fake brick and simulated history of Liberty Square makes way for the real and dangerously uneven brick sidewalks of truly historical Cambridge. Street entertainment at Disney World abounds, as familiar characters and jovial musicians roam the parks. Harvard Square characters include mysterious brides and punk Pit People; musicians include Beatles cover bands and wandering a cappella groups. (Auditions and applications for such Harvard groups are as demanding and highly selective as Disney performer auditions...
...support the Taliban but regard the Americans with suspicion or hostility. Add to that the scores of local warlords and politicians who've lost out to rivals supported by the U.S.-backed government in Kabul, and the thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda militants who continue to roam the countryside, and Afghanistan remains an exceedingly - and perhaps increasingly - dangerous place for the U.S. military...
...Osama bin Laden's terrorist network have long since cleared out of Kabul, but many members of their Afghan cohort are at large, according to intelligence sources in the government of Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. The attack might also have been the work of Taliban fighters who still roam the city--in beardless disguise--acting on their own instead of with al-Qaeda. A third possibility is that the bomber was an Afghan who wanted payback for a bomb the U.S. mistakenly dropped on his home...