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...briefing in the prison's outer section, Siwa explains the rules to a motley media circus. "Remember, this is a maximum security prison," he says. "Leave your mobile phones, bags and wallets in the lockers provided. Interviews with prisoners are forbidden except with my permission. You will be body searched." He smiles. "And if anything goes wrong, I hope you can run fast." After the promised pat-down and a trip through a metal detector under the scrutiny of granite-jawed guards clutching M-16s and big wooden sticks, the reporters are ushered through two sets of tall steel gates...
...literature department nor a thesaurus was consulted while writing the menu. They have assorted bagels, assorted sandwiches and, of course, assorted fresh-baked cookies. Though they aren’t explicitly labeled “assorted,” there is also a wide selection of tortilla wraps, a motley selection of candy, gum and mints and supposedly fresh-baked danish and pastries...
...place wherever they spent their time—dribbling down a soccer field, pipetting in a biology lab or strumming a guitar—and with whom they spent their time. For example, The Crimson’s Editorial Board—a slightly pretentious, left-leaning and rebellious motley crew—emboldened me, pushed me to the right of center and taught me how to work along with the most sundry of characters. Random first-year roommates forced us to live with characters completely unlike ourselves. A good friend shows us the meaning of loyalty and integrity...
...vaccinated, quarantine those suspected of having a contagious disease, take over hospitals and physicians' offices and seize and destroy property deemed a threat to public health. Since January at least 30 states have considered adopting all or part of the model law, but they've run headfirst into a motley coalition of civil liberties groups, religious conservatives, free-marketeers and gay-rights activists. As a result, many states have begun to decide they don't want that much power after all. So far only Utah has passed a version of the law, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council...
...pinning its hopes on that motley crew, but most of the rest of the world believes that an international peacekeeping force is essential. The obvious solution is to expand ISAF's mandate from Kabul to cover the whole country. But Britain will relinquish its six-month leadership of ISAF in mid-April; its most likely successor, Turkey, is refusing to commit troops without an assurance from Washington that the U.S. will pick up the tab. "The problem is not what needs to be done," says the Western adviser, "the real problem is: Who's going to do it? Only...