Word: withdrawnness
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Trapped for six days in the remains of his home in Cinarcik on the Marmara coast, with hardly an inch of space above his face, Ismail was withdrawn and hallucinatory in the early days of his recovery. His mother is in a different hospital with a crushed femur. Ismail seems to sense the unspoken news that his father is dead, as are three sisters. Yet despite his troubles, says Nail Yologlu, one of Ismail's doctors, the boy is healing. "In a ferocious way," says the physician, "he is coming...
...Cary's parents, Delbert and Kay Stayner, was padlocked last week, and the blinds were shut tight. But relatives and other acquaintances opened a window on three decades of Stayner-family horrors, and when they did, Cary stood in the darkest corner of his family's misery, quiet, withdrawn, forever sketching the world he wanted...
Under the new proposal, individuals over age 70 and one-half will be able to make donations with IRA money withdrawn tax-free, starting...
...very much against expanding education IRAs," said the Treasury official, noting that the broad guidelines allow money to be withdrawn tax-free for programs only tangentially related to education, such as for sports programs or extracurricular hobbies...
...Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Retiring him 10 months rather than 12 months from now is based entirely on the fact that they badly want to ensure his replacement is General Joe Ralston." Ralston, who became vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when his nomination for chairman was withdrawn after he confessed to an extramarital affair, would be forced by law to retire once his present command expires in February unless he gets a new posting within 60 days...