Word: asylums
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...Iraqi officials say some of those refugees have begun returning home, spurred by the reduction in terrorist attacks and sectarian violence, especially in Baghdad. But that amounts to a small trickle compared with the numbers still seeking a way out. Though 66,000 Iraqis have applied for asylum, just 14,000 of them have been granted refugee status by the U.N. and have had their files sent to the State Department for resettlement in America. So far, some 2,700 have been brought...
...only oddity for tonight’s audience. “There is quite a unique strip scene,” says Pastel. Although the ushering orderlies, the unbalanced set design, and the barking and stripping of the characters all serve as reminders of the play’s asylum setting, the production team hopes that the audience will not miss the universality of the play’s theme. Renaud says, “It’s very much about the common humanity of the six characters, and how everyone wants to find love at the bottom...
...this country because it is another reminder that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a horrible blunder. As bad as Saddam Hussein was, it is impossible to believe that the Iraqi people are better off now than before our invasion. It is our shame that we have granted asylum to so few refugees. The President's pre-emptive war of choice must be judged by history as a crime against a people who did us no harm. James G. Whiteley Sr., Paducah...
...Ruskin, called him the supreme English painter of his day. His critics, and there were more of them all the time, thought his watercolors were "crude blotches" and his oils a "gross outrage." They also routinely called him insane (which hurt--his mother had died in Bedlam, the London asylum). Their complaints boiled down to the same thing. Turner made light tangible but things illegible. Or, as the essayist William Hazlitt put it in a still famous wisecrack, he made "pictures of nothing, and very like...
...processing: Can we speed it up?" He complained of the endless "bottlenecks" delaying entry even for those Iraqis who had risked their lives working for U.S. forces. Crocker pleaded with immigration and Homeland Security officials to fast-track the screening process so the State Department's recommended 7,000 asylum slots could be filled...