Word: handing
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...wall, a sign says "Food Not Bombs" alongside a picture of a hand lifting a carrot into the sky. On the door of the walk-in pantry there is a mural of Dr.Seuss' Lorax and magnets of naked people streak across the refrigerator. Surrounded by the Wall of Spices, the Wall of Beans, and the Wall of Tea, Weller points little note cards explaining the medicinal properties of each tea box. "Chaste Berry," for example, will "ease PMS" and "reduce horniness...
...Andrews, on the other hand, is concerned more with the good of the unit than the idea of all kinds of people working together. "The military is based on teamwork and unity, and a team only works best together with absolute trust," Andrews says. Looking at society, Andrews sees friction between heterosexuals and homosexuals, and he doesn't want that interfering with the efficiency of ROTC. In general society, there is friction between heterosexuals and homosexuals, so the military is really no different. It took time for men to be able to work side by side with women...
...this is no mere subterfuge: Khatami himself is a veteran of 1979, while the reform movement's most important ideological figure may be Ayatollah Ali Montezeir, the imprisoned liberal theologian who had once been Khomeini's handpicked successor. "Although the elections are likely to give Khatami a stronger hand to push his reform agenda," says Dowell, "the real struggle for a new Iran may be going on behind the walls of the seminaries where more and more clerics are challenging the conservatives' view of the extent of the clergy's political authority." That's a tortuous process to which ordinary...
...aggressively squelched in the courtroom, the troubled legacies of Rodney King and Abner Louima haunt the trial of four white New York City police officers accused of murdering African trinket salesman Amadou Diallo. The police say they mistook Diallo's black wallet, which he apparently proffered in an outstretched hand, for a gun, and believing their lives were in danger, the police fired their weapons 41 times...
...this point in his testimony, Carroll broke down and sobbed as he remembered approaching Diallo after the shooting stopped, his heart sinking as he realized Diallo was clutching a black wallet, rather than a gun. Carroll recalled kneeling beside Diallo, stroking his hand, saying over and over, "Please don't die, please don't die. Come on, keep breathing...