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...until they found themselves staring down the gun barrels of insurgents from the Kurdistan Workers Party, a guerrilla group lately kidnapping tourists as part of its war for independence. After packing Rowbottom and Miller around the backcountry for five weeks to avoid searches by the Turkish army, the guerrillas freed the couple last week. Rowbottom and Miller expressed relief at being released alive and unharmed. They did not indicate, however, whether they had heard the Central Asian proverb "Travel is a foretaste of hell...
Then, last month, the Israeli Supreme Court delivered the mortal blow to Ryan's contention that Demjanjuk was Ivan the Terrible. Ruling that the KGB evidence established a reasonable doubt about Ivan's identity, the court freed Demjanjuk...
...digging up the past became less important to Leakey than preserving Africa's heritage for future generations. Asked in 1989 to head Kenya's wildlife department -- which included a disorderly paramilitary force ^ that failed to protect elephants, rhinos and other animals from poachers -- he insisted that the agency be freed from government control. He then fired dishonest employees and raised the low salaries that made officials and troops vulnerable to bribes from poachers. Today morale is up, poaching is down, and bribe taking is nonexistent...
Many students from Suburban High School or the Piddlesworth Academy face heterogeneity for the first time at Harvard. Freed from whitewashing influences, they begin to examine how innate characteristics affect their intellectual development and their everyday lives...
...What we have done is create a marvelous system of laws, but to some people the law isn't worth the paper it's written on," Reno said. "The law has tied people up, rather than freed them...