Word: stretchings
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...searched for the truth, again and again. I've loved so many, yet few remember me. They're in my heart. Am I in theirs? I stretch a loving hand - why refuse...
...officials concede that many of these "removals" belonged to gangs, either in prisons or in Hispanic neighborhoods back in the U.S. In Florida and New York, aliens in jail for criminal acts are given a choice halfway through their term to either be deported immediately or serve out their stretch and then be deported. Most go quickly, not realizing that violent death may await them in Central America...
...Hafedh Aboud Mehdi, Youssef and Ahmed. If the trio had in fact been armed, says an Interior Ministry official, it would have been the first time ever that an Iraqi had gotten a weapon through all the checkpoints to try to carry out an attack on that stretch of road. The contention over what happened - with the Iraqi accounts at odds with the initial U.S. report - had overtones of other controversial episodes, including the 2005 events in Haditha...
...custody since his capture and had not been rendered to any foreign countries for interrogation, which might open the door for his defense lawyer to raise questions about his treatment. And his story certainly had narrative appeal: Hamdan had been with bin Laden from 1996 to 2001, a stretch of time that spanned not just 9/11 but al-Qaeda's 1998 attacks on two embassies in East Africa and the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen...
...returning to Barcelona because part of me wants to preserve that idyllic image. But I have few memories of the week I spent in London as an eight year old, so when I moved seven weeks ago into a room 20 minutes south of Waterloo, I felt a blankness stretch before me, full of terrifying possibility like a painter’s white canvas...