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...bout of bloodletting; it also potentially puts the very notion of a two-state solution to the conflict beyond reach. That would leave Israel in permanent control of millions of Palestinians with no democratic rights in the state that governs them - a situation dovish Israeli commentators warn would be akin to apartheid South Africa. Even Sharon himself warned his countrymen in May, "You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation. To hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation, I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians...
...Nigeria's previous interventions in Liberia and Sierra Leone have been somewhat messy: Hundreds of Nigerian troops were killed, making the deployments unpopular domestically. And in retaking the capital of Sierra Leone from rebel fighters, Nigerian forces displayed a brutality akin to that of some of the region's warlords, and UN officials later accused some Nigerian officers of corruption. More immediately, veterans of previous peacekeeping operations have warned that the scale of the Nigerian force envisaged for Liberia is insufficient to stabilize Monrovia...
...because he had gotten the most votes and because he was from Virginia, the colony that had proposed the resolution. His four colleagues had other committee assignments that they considered to be more important, and none of them realized that the document would eventually become viewed as a text akin to Scripture. As for Franklin, he was still laid up in bed with boils and gout when the committee first met. Besides, he later told Jefferson, "I have made it a rule, whenever in my power, to avoid becoming the draughtsman of papers to be reviewed by a public body...
...fact, Rumsfeld may have inadvertently hit on a significant analogy when, to dismiss "quagmire" fears, he compared Iraq with Eastern Europe in the wake of communism. Saddam's Iraq was certainly more akin to a Stalinist regime than any Arab autocracy. But the difference between it and post-Soviet Russia is that Iraq right now is wholly owned by the U.S. If the U.S. military had been occupying Russia in the wake of communism's collapse, the situation might have been quite different: Like post-Soviet Russians, Iraqis suddenly find themselves enjoying unprecedented freedom to speak their minds. But like...
...Jennifer Botterill, an athlete of the year award for her has always been akin to a team of the year award for Harvard women’s hockey...