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...preaching to them. "You can't lecture someone into change," he says. So he sought to make the lessons deeply personal. Part group therapy, part confessional, the course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their bosses...
...Renovations"? Knowles' plan for Wolbach is a wolf masquerading in sheep's clothing. The proposed renovations would likely strip Wolbach of much of its comfort and charm. Many of Wolbach's rooms are already subdivided; partitions have been erected over the years to squeeze extra singles out of the suites' common-room space. Further partitioning would only leave the rooms cramped and awkwardly arranged. Furthermore, the kitchen spaces are long and narrow and do not naturally lend themselves to bedroom conversion. They cannot be removed from the building without seriously damaging Wolbach's appealing character. The best way to alleviate...
...peace talks appeared on the verge of a breakthrough last summer, the New York Times reported of 90 two- and three-week summer camp programs attended by 25,000 Palestinian teenagers on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Run by aides of Yasir Arafat, it was not your usual camp. Campers are given "the chance to stage a mock kidnapping of an Israeli leader by masked Palestinian commandos, ending with the Israeli bodyguards sprawled dead on the ground," the Times reported. "There is the opportunity to excel in stripping and reassembling a real Kalashnikov rifle." No doubt...
...portfolio. They sweep on their mascara and pluck their eyebrows to craft the perfect face. They play the part of sex kitten with lots of meow, because that's what men want. But the strobe exposes the girls for what they really are. The flashes of harsh, white light strip Fifi's face of her makeup - and her contrivance. In that freeze-frame instant, Fifi isn't a sexy sophisticate, just an innocent girl searching for love. In a place called Babylon, where Shanghai babies pretend to be women...
...preaching to them. "You can't lecture someone into change," he says. So he sought to make the lessons deeply personal. Part group therapy, part confessional, the course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their bosses...