Word: secrets
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...third bill, the Secret Evidence Repeal Act, would have removed another provision of the 1996 law that violated basic principles of judicial fairness. Under the 1996 law, immigrants can be deported without being allowed to see the evidence on which their deportation is based, depriving them of all chance to present a defense. Many of the victims of the bill have been Arab-Americans: In one recent case, an Egyptian immigrant was detained without bond for three years on secret evidence until an immigration judge dismissed all the evidence as inadmissable hearsay. The bill has broad support...
...Arafat, it was a chancy gamble to risk so much on a chaotic army of armed and unarmed rioters rampaging in a mix of calculation and spontaneity. He nominally controls, all told, a host of 10 to 13 security organizations, totaling perhaps 40,000--modestly armed police in blue, secret-service agents in black, paramilitary commandos in green, and plainclothes spies, each owing allegiance to a variety of factional masters...
...Bush is not so shy about selling his record of governing in Texas, which he boasts has been successful because of political relationships with Republicans and Democrats that he cultivated before he was even elected. While running against former Democratic governor Ann Richards in 1994, Bush paid a secret visit to Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock, a Democrat and the most powerful person in Texas politics. "You may not think I'm going to win," Bush told him, "but when I do, I want to work with you." Even when Bush's prediction came to pass, the famously crusty Bullock...
...play so engaging. They walk in at the beginning shaking hands, kissing babies, trying to win over the audience to their side, although it is the referee who judges them. Throughout the show they directly appeal to the audience as they bash the other's character or tell a secret...
...Tweedledee and Tweedledum battled it out on Tuesday, I did my best to remind myself that "West Wing" is a work of fiction; that my secret desire for Election 2000 to yield inspirational candidates could not be assuaged by watching Martin Sheen in all his carefully scripted glory...