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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...step ahead of the next Predator strike than plotting attacks on targets halfway around the globe. But the collateral damage from U.S. operations in those countries has enraged Muslims around the world, creating an opportunity for jihadists to use the Internet to inspire angry Muslims in the West to action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fort Hood Highlights a Threat of Homegrown Jihad | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

Sandel continued his discussion within a contemporary framework by prescribing certain conditions for improving the execution of justice and ethical action...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sandel Takes on ‘Right Thing’ | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...would be done with walking.” Snow also uses “as if,” instead of “as though,” whose “f” reappears in “fly,” which emphasizes the action within the hypothetical, as opposed to the hypothetical itself. In many ways the difference between the translations of these two lines embody the fundamental difference between Snow and Mitchell’s translations—Mitchell is concerned with the force of the imagination, of the dreamy feeling in Rilke, whereas...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revisiting Rilke's Translations | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...never ultimatum, warning him to crack the whip on Israel or lose his Palestinian partner. Levy agrees that putting a U.S. peace plan on the table now would be a bad idea - but that's because the timing is bad. That's why he recommends a familiar course of action to an Administration becoming accustomed to foreign policy setbacks: For now, says Levy, the Administration would be well advised to subject its Middle East peace policy to a review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Obama Have a Plan B for the Middle East? | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

Having confessed to the killings as a prisoner at the end of World War II before escaping to Germany and dodging imprisonment in the decades that followed, Boere's prosecution marks a victory for those who are pressing for action against suspected Nazi criminals before they die. The trial, which opened last month and resumes on Nov. 17, "sends a very powerful message that the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of murderers," Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, said in a statement, "and that old age should not protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Nazi Hitman, 88, Finally Stands Trial | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

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