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...have been responsible for hundreds of recent abductions. (Karuna and the military deny committing these acts.) The L.T.T.E., too, continues to kidnap potential young fighters. The violence is not chaotic, as in parts of Africa, but controlled and sadistic. It's as if the entire nation is suffering a slow-burning but destructive psychosis. "There's been a brutalization of society," says Saravanamuttu. "For centuries we have gone through these occasional paroxysms of violence, but over the last three decades we have increasingly relied on violence as the chief form of dispute settlement...
...Spenser was the oldest, proudest bank on Wall Street, but it had entered into the early stages of a slow decline around the time I was hired. It was in all honesty this trend toward mediocrity that best explains my hiring.' --PAGE 54 OF mergers & acquisitions BY DANA VACHON...
DEFINITION stroll v. To walk in a slow and relaxed manner...
...tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration--arrogance, incompetence, cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality. They're not likely to change. And it is increasingly difficult to imagine yet another two years of slow bleed with a leader so clearly unfit to lead...
...detainees are not American citizens, in 2004 the Supreme Court held that this standard is also applicable to the Guantánamo detainees. In Rasul v. Bush, the Court explicitly denied that Bush administration could rightfully hold the detainees indefinitely without charge. Nonetheless, the U.S. government has been unacceptably slow in bringing the detainees to trial. It has been nearly three years since the Rasul ruling, and the detainees have now been held in Guantánamo for over five years. Only Hicks has been tried, and prosecutors have indicated plans to charge only 75 to 80 of the nearly...