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...right to exist, and to disarm," saying that if it made that shift, the EU "stands ready to continue to support Palestinian economic development and democratic state building." But even if it lives by them in practice as it embraces the realities of government, Hamas is unlikely to publicly adopt such principles any time soon. Indeed, in response to the Quartet statement, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri rejected the call to disavow violence and recognize Israel, saying "the Quartet should have demanded an end to occupation and aggression... not demanded that the victim should recognize the occupation and stand handcuffed...
...needed." She decided she was missing the Olympic-caliber coaching and skating facilities of the East Coast, so she and her family moved to considerably chillier Connecticut, where she joined the powerhouse skating team of Tatiana Tarasova, who has coached eight Olympic champions. There Cohen was forced to adopt a strict regimen of endurance and strength training to build up her core for whipping off jumps. The result: she had her best season, winning three international competitions. The 56-year-old Tarasova's health began to decline, however, and so did her relationship with Cohen, who was starting to chafe...
...professors then outlined a five-point system that they wrote should be employed if the U.S. were to adopt a policy of engaging in targeted killings. Their proposal included using comprehensive intelligence gathering, employing the “highest technical skill” to minimize collateral damage, relying on “rigorous and independent” legal counsel, creating realistic analyses of the impact of targeted killings on U.S. foreign policy as a whole, and integrating of all of the above approaches into a unified policy...
...professors concluded that the U.S. needs to have a debate to determine whether it supports a policy of targeted killings, and that if it does, it should adopt a system with stringent safeguards and full coordination...
...groups in Iraq are loath to target women because they know it would gain them no public sympathy. If anything, ordinary Iraqis (even those who sympathize with the insurgency) regard such kidnappers with contempt. That's one of the reasons why groups that have kidnapped women have tended to adopt new and obscure names - they don't want their real names tainted by association...