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...Masters' docket committee on which Paul serves and last night in an extended meeting of the tutors--discussing our deep concerns for the health and safety of the students of John Winthrop House. To drink alcohol to excess is to court serious injury and death. It is to abet sexual assaults and other physical violence. It can adversely affect academic and athletic performance. It can ruin promising careers and lead to profound personal tragedy...
...perfunctory words of sympathy are but the necessary diplomatic entree to get to the real punch line: telling Israelis that no matter how many of their women and children are lying in pieces on the street, they must continue to negotiate with the very people who harbor and abet these murderers. And honor them: suicide bombers are hailed as shaheed, holy martyrs. Indeed, a poll taken of West Bank Palestinians showed that they approved, by 49% to 38%, of the previous suicide bombing, the March massacre in a Tel Aviv cafe...
...What does national security mean and does it ever justify obstruction of justice and criminal activities," Harbury asked the audience. "Can U.S. officials knowingly and routinely get information extracted from murder and torture?...Can [the U.S.] aid and abet torture and can these decisions be made in Washington and still be constitutional...
Militia watchers were stunned that a group with so much weaponry and such big plans could have maintained so low a profile. Says Jack McLamb, a former police officer who publishes Aid & Abet, a Phoenix-based newsletter sympathetic to the militias: "We weren't aware of the Vipers, and that's what's surprising to us. We thought we were on top of things." What the Vipers may be is part of the shifting fringe of the disparate militia movement. These groups, says Richard Romley, chief prosecutor for Phoenix and Maricopa County, "pop up and go away sometimes overnight. They...
...conferences of politicians. The NRC barred him from its public meetings until a judge ordered the ban lifted. But Comley's game evolved: instead of demanding that plants be shut down, he began insisting they be run safely. He teamed up with the sharp-witted Hadley to aid and abet whistle blowers and sank his life savings into We the People before taking a dime in donations. Comley, says the NRC's Norton, "has been useful in bringing important issues to our attention. Steve can be a very intense guy. I don't think it's good for his health...