Word: runaways
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...American Friends Service Committee in Cambridge, said Monday that the Sensenbrenner bill contains “proposals that mirror the language of the 1850s Fugitive Slave Act,” which made it a crime punishable by up to six months in prison to knowingly aid a runaway slave...
Starring as Sampson the lion – the unimaginatively-named leader of a band of quirky New York City Zoo animals who try to rescue Sampson’s runaway son (Greg Cipes)—Sutherland brings a level of realism to the beast he portrays that no other actor in the film can attain. This is largely because the timbre of his voice enlivens his feline alter-ego, while most everyone else manipulates his/her accent to the point of incomprehensibility...
...Runaway Wheelchair...
...last part in his gloomy picture concerns the runaway growth of debt, and not just the massive increase in what you and I owe on credit cards and mortgages, although that opens the way to widespread defaults if the economy stumbles badly or real estate comes in for a hard landing. To cover its deficits in recent years, the U.S. became a huge debtor in overseas markets. That kind of borrowing, Phillips reminds us, was a prelude to the collapse of earlier empires. "There have been no heavenly interventions on behalf of past leading international debtors," he says dryly...
...club, where cheery expatriates are enjoying their Wednesday-night drinks, Junelyn is fighting back tears on the Honiara dockside. She searches the faces of the three child prostitutes hiding in the shadows. One by one, she asks them, "Have you seen my daughter?" Finally, a girl admits Junelyn's runaway 12-year-old has been working alongside them as a "dugong" - the local term for a young prostitute - servicing the foreign freighters that anchor off the Solomon Islands capital to collect tuna caught by local fishing boats. On the wharf where the child was last seen, Customs officer Moses Tare...