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The Washington Post stuffs Dagestan and goes instead with the INS's apparent loosening of its previous policy of automatically detaining every immigrant eligible for deportation because of a criminal conviction.
Analysts have identified four schools of thought, in ascending order of laxity: 1) The Marine Corps, which is resisting the loosening of standards because, in the words of a spokesman, "If you can't trust the Marine next to you to remain faithful, how can you trust him on the battlefield?"
The WP piece doesn't even mention Khameni (although another Post front pager, on Iran's loosening of domestic social restrictions, especially on women and intellectuals, does so in the course of an informative paragraph on the Iranian power structure).
Previous reports have found colocalization of these molecules in areas of tissue remodeling, loosening of prosthetic joints [ 45, 46, 47], and in the cartilage-pannus junction [ 14].
I spent some time ferreting about in the new material and am pleased to report (as I suspected) a sane and sensible approach (in chapter 15) to such topics as “The trend towards informality” (the language, even in Britain, is loosening up), “The objections to sexist language” (“Present usage is unstable.