Word: wente
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...Press, one of the old city dailies, on the brink of extinction and in the shadow of the failing car industry, won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting. Last year, the paper published text messages between the city's mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, and his female chief of staff. The mayor went to jail...
...Ironically, events in Somalia last week went quite well from the official U.S. viewpoint. True, it was grating to watch warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, whom American soldiers had died trying to capture, hold a press conference with six reporters. Looking dapper in a blue pinstripe shirt and red polka-dot tie and sporting a gold-tipped cane, Aidid congratulated the U.S. on having ''decided to address its past mistakes'' -- meaning its attempts to take him prisoner. The whole point of the U.S. policy shift, however, was to call off the hunt for Aidid, which was widely blamed for converting what...
...thing I just couldn't wrap my head around was the process by which Dylan went from a depressed kid to one capable of committing mass murder...
...Agency also seems to have told the OLC that the waterboarding technique was routinely used by the U.S. military to train thousands of service personnel in Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) - and that those who went through the training had not suffered any lasting physical or mental health effects. In the 2002 memo, Bybee notes the CIA's assurance that "a medical expert with SERE experience will be present" when Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded, to prevent severe mental or physical harm. However, the IG investigation found that the waterboarding technique used on the CIA's detainees was significantly different...
...Royal that dishonors France." Citing the Elysée's denial that Sarkozy ever made the comments, Paillé argued that Royal's saying sorry for them "tarnishes our nation's image abroad for reasons that were false." On Saturday, another UMP spokesman, Frédéric Lefebvre, went even further, suggesting that Royal's making apologies usually reserved for the presidential office that Sarkozy beat her to indicates she needs "psychological help...