Word: aggressors
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...Murder by Numbers--written by Tony Gayton and directed by Barbet Schroeder, and the best by far of the new bunch--Bullock's Cassie Mayweather is a tenacious sleuth whose strategies reflect a trauma in her own life. With men she's the sexual aggressor, jumping on her new partner and, when the party's over, literally pushing him out of bed. When she builds a case against two boys for a vicious killing, she wants to destroy the slick one (Ryan Gosling) who reminds her of her brutal ex-husband, and save the sensitive one (Michael Pitt) who reminds...
Suddenly Palestinians felt that they were restoring their honor by fighting the aggressor, by not being helpless victims. Facing a superior Israeli army with its formidable arsenal, they felt morally victorious as the children of the stones became heroes of defiance. While that sense of victory served Arafat as a psychological platform to launch his peace initiative and recognition of Israel, it was the Oslo agreement and the peace process that followed that disillusioned the Palestinians and threw them into a new episode of confrontation. The reluctance of Israeli governments to implement promised withdrawals from Palestinian land, and then...
...tribunal has named "amicus" attorneys--friends of the court--for Milosevic, to challenge evidence and offer exculpatory facts, even if he won't. If he tries to put NATO on trial as an unlawful aggressor by calling world leaders as witnesses, they would probably refuse to appear. Only the judges could legally summon them...
...tribunal has named "amicus" attorneys - friends of the court - for Milosevic, to challenge evidence and offer exculpatory facts, even if he won't. If he tries to put NATO on trial as an unlawful aggressor by calling world leaders as witnesses, they would likely refuse to appear. Only the judges could legally summon them...
...University, Danny Katch, 26, gave a 25-minute lecture on the lessons of Vietnam for today's activists. Lesson No. 1: The movement helped end the war. In fact, not many Vietnam-era lessons apply automatically. A major accusation against the U.S. in the '60s--that it was the aggressor in Southeast Asia--is not so easy to invoke this time, when any U.S. military action will follow a terrorist attack carried out on American soil. And the argument that the mass murder of Sept. 11 was brought on by injustices of American foreign policy is hard to credit when...