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...loved one’s green card? The right to jointly adopt children in the eyes of the law? Or how about the right to have our state or commonwealth bear witness to our love for each other, instead of pathologizing it and sweeping it under the rug? We have listened to your vague ideas about dignity and value, and, frankly, we have found them sorely wanting...
...from the entrance. It's hard to imagine the confines could provide its inhabitant with a feeling of security, much less power, or anything other than a sense of claustrophobia, especially when the Styrofoam block is lowered into the entrance way, then covered with a rubber mat, a cloth rug, and dirt-as it was when Special Operations Forces soldiers discovered it shortly after 8 p.m. on December...
...second time through the property where he was found, perhaps five strides inside the front gate, a soldier kicked away some dirt from a spot that looked odd-a spot on top of which a soldier had stood during the first pass. Underneath the dirt was a cloth rug. Underneath that was a rubber mat, which sat atop a thick Styrofoam block. "We expected something more elaborate. We expected something more well constructed," said Lt. Col. Hickey. They also expected resistance, he says, but when the block was removed, "two hands appeared. That individual clearly wanted to surrender." The bearded...
...country’s strides on the economic front cannot justify its stumbles when it comes to democracy and human rights, and Summers should not allow Wen to sweep China’s record of wholesale human-rights violations and violent crackdowns on democracy advocates under the rug...
...linings for gloves, boots, hats, jackets and other items made from pelts imported mostly from China, the Philippines and Thailand. Struan Stevenson, a Scottish Member of the European Parliament who wants an E.U.-wide ban on such imports, has a coat made of Alsatian skin (bought in Berlin), a rug made from four golden retrievers (from Copenhagen), individual cat pelts (obtained in Barcelona) and kitten-in-a-basket novelties made from dog fur. "I have personally bought these little cat figurines in virtually every country in the E.U.," he says. In Austria, Stevenson adds, some health shops advertise catskin rugs...