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...TIME's request to enter the Mytilene center was denied. From its gates, late one sunny morning, the detainees could be seen inside, a few with their arms hanging through the bars of the shut door. Several immigrants released that day said the center's bathrooms and showers were filthy, and that they were allowed into the courtyard for short spells only twice a week...
...points out that some of the tactics he employed in 2003 have made a comeback. As commander of the 4th Infantry Division, despite orders to pull back, he kept small outposts in neighborhoods among the residents, ensuring better surveillance and quick response to insurgent attacks, which helped him shut down the fedayeen on Saddam's home turf. The outposts have become one of the cornerstones of the surge strategy...
These railroads were worth more alive than dead, so inventive people figured out ways to reorganize them rather than shut them down. "The investment banks and lawyers and managers would negotiate a deal and get the courts to bless it," says David Skeel, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America. "It was a very flexible reorganization process." It was also a uniquely American answer to business failure. The private sector took the lead. Reinvention--and rebirth--was the goal. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Crusaders were quickly shut down, as sophomore Christine Matera and Berry each added three-pointers...
...bloody because we’re so angry about those Yalies coming to our turf Saturday. [1] Also because we’ve been chewing on nails. They’re going to bring their boomboxes and obese dogs, and they probably have some sort of scheme to shut down our Student Union. But Prestige and Mobility won’t let any Yalie past, present, or future build us a Student Union, so that he could step foot in it, soil it, and then shut it down. In fact we’d personally go back in time...