Word: steers
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...trial motions, Padilla's attorneys have consistently tried to steer attention to what happened to Padilla during his three years and eight months in military detention - and to some degree Cooke has allowed them to do that. They contend that Padilla was tortured: fed LSD and other drugs, exposed to extreme temperatures, shackled in "stress positions" and deprived of sleep. The torture, they argue, made Padilla mentally unfit to stand trial and so undermined his constitutional right to a fair process that the whole case should be thrown...
...Bill of Rights. Last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists rated Syria ninth on its list of the ten most censored countries. And many in Lebanon blame Syria for the assassination of Lebanese journalists. Nevertheless, there is a fledgling private press in Syria, and although local reporters learn to steer clear of sensitive subjects, there is still room for a limited form of real journalism. Syria Today, the independent English-language magazine where I teach, has published articles calling for the reform of some of the basic parts of the Syrian government, including the court system. This isn't North...
...switch concentrations are in a particularly tricky situation: Having lost my concentration adviser, I was left in a between-department vacuum. With the delay of concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, Harvard should take the opportunity to seriously rethink its approach to advising—and hopefully steer its cumbersome bureaucracy towards catching the errors that really matter...
...kamikaze to the big screen. It was written by Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo and one of Japan's most nationalistic politicians. That such a film would play in the mainstream and be made with technical support from today's Japanese military, which you'd think would steer clear of this particular subject, will be grist for the mill to those warning of a rise in "dangerous" nationalism in Japan...
...something really challenging. I got to portray two very different characters, with very different personalities—one younger character getting manipulated, and the other was sort of the manipulator.' In contrast to those extremes, Cregg’s character in “Reception” tries to steer events in the play but finds this to be a difficult task. Valerie is less manipulative and more quietly well-intentioned, Cregg says. She also sees some parallels between Valerie’s mediator persona and her own. 'The play is filled with very large personalities, and Val?...