For a time, Hanwell Snr made his own reluctance to sit appear quite natural, busying himself with the hot oil and dismissing certain chips as not fit to be thrown in the fryer if his only son was to eat them.

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In between torture sessions, Mr. Gao's jailers showed him video of his young son crying from hunger and told him that only if he sang revolutionary paeans to the Communist Party would they allow his wife access to her bank account to buy food.

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If George W. Bush follows his father to the presidency, becoming only the second son to pull off that trick (John Quincey Adams, son of John Adams, was the first), it could foreclose Jeb's own chance of entering the White House.

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If at some point the president does try to foist his son on the people, he may only increase the pressure for a genuinely open contest in which the Islamists would seem the strongest contenders.

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By the end of that week, she was told that she could keep her son there only if she came every day to administer the shots and to check his sugar level throughout the day, which wasn't feasible.

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People are angry that the king's son-in-law will only have some assets frozen if he does not pay his bail.

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