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...Going up, I was really determined to do something,” Schellberg said. “The first two pitches were balls, so I knew I was going to a good pitch was coming. I just swung...
...come and sit down...there are a lot of interruptions.”For now, even departing from the freshman dining hall is enough of an ordeal. Sundquist’s tray hits the revolving belt in front of the dishwashing depot, and within seconds, its owner has swung one khaki-sheathed leg onto the contraption so that he can lean over and converse with the staff. A few words with Advising Fortnight-hawkers, some hand-slaps in the breezeway, and he’s finally out. The bulk of the day’s meetings are still ahead...
...very interesting intersection of these issues," Mary Zdanowicz, director of the Arlington, Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center, said. From the "easy" commitment laws in the first half of the 20th century, the pendulum has swung over the past couple of decades to the point that it has been increasingly more difficult to get a troubled individual committed involuntarily, she said. Now, she argues, the pendulum is starting to swing back in the other direction. "From my perspective, it's a good thing," Zdanowicz said...
...realized this was what almost all the U-turns had in common: people had swung around to face East. They had stopped thinking in a line and started thinking in a circle. Morality was looking less like a set of rules and more like a story, one in which they were part of an ensemble cast, no longer the star...
...country, suspected terrorists should be handled carefully and do not necessarily need to be afforded the same rights as American citizens. Nonetheless, there must be a balance between the protective measures taken by U.S. officials and the principles of justice they compromise in the process. The balance has currently swung too far in the direction of injustice. The Constitution, however, outlines principles and rights that Americans deem essential to a just legal system, which include the right of prisoners to know the charges against them and the right to receive a fair and speedy trial. While the Guantánamo...