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Without seeking the approval of or even consulting Congress, Bush has significantly increased the powers of federal law enforcement, shrunk the attorney-client privilege for those suspected of being terrorists and detained thousands of Arab men without due process. He has granted himself the power to try terrorist suspects in secret military tribunals rather than in open civilian court, and he has signed orders eliminating some of the restrictions governing the conduct of CIA operatives abroad. He even signed an order making it more difficult for historians to get access to presidential papers...
...newly diminished body, his slender arms and gaunt cheeks belie his exuberance. He doesn't look like he has been eating much. This gentle incarceration in the Veteran's Hospital has reduced even his hunger. It is as if his girth has shrunk to fit his confinement. His aching knees give him the peg-legged gait of an ageing cowboy who has been riding too long. He looks out at the world through bloodshot eyes...
...central mystery of the tape had little to do with its content and more with the process by which it had been made public. Why had the Americans produced it now? And so the tape became the perfect example of a wider truth: technologies like television may have shrunk the world, but they have not given it a common understanding...
...admission has grown exponentially fiercer in recent years. The not unsubtle subtext of Middlebury's communiqu? is that unless you're a world-renowned peace crusader - or Alan Alda sidekick! or circus performer! or something else truly eccentric! - the odds of getting into an elite school have lately shrunk to Powerball-like improbability...
...nurse in a blue uniform with a pager clipped to her collar. She bent down to show me how it works, and the weight of the pager opened a fabulous landscape of tanned young breasts and gleaming white brassiere. I gazed in and realized that my libidinous urge had shrunk to something akin to my urge to play croquet...