Word: arresting
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...count on him driving it into Detroit, picking up a prostitute, engaging in a sexual act in the car's front seat--and getting caught. Nor did she know that the state of Michigan would be legally permitted to seize the car involved in a prostitution arrest, even though, in this case, it was co-owned by Tina. With the support of an odd coalition of civil rights liberals and property-rights conservatives, Bennis has pressed a lawsuit to recover her half of the $600 value of the car. Last week the Supreme Court surprised the legal community by ruling...
...potential threat to the safety of the community led to a limitation of individual rights. During World War I, the Sedition Act and the Espionage Act censored antiwar sentiments and restricted free press and free speech. At the height of the Cold War, supposed Communist leanings were grounds for arrest. In all these instances, the United States was at war against a specific enemy for a particular cause. Unfortunately, our war is not so clearly delineated. Our only enemy is ourselves, the war is indefinite and our cause is painfully and dangerously vague...
Israel has its own ideas of how to deal with Hamas. Immediately after the first bombings, Israel launched a dragnet in the areas still under its control, and military chief of staff Lieut. General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak demanded from Arafat the arrest of specific individuals, extradition of fugitives from Israeli justice and expansion of the P.A.'s intelligence network...
...regardless of how many bombs they discover and how many suspected villains they arrest, the Israeli army can never change the fundamental attitudes of the Palestinians. An Arabic daily, shortly after the Tel Aviv bombing this week, ran an editorial saying, "Hamas is a mass movement and it will disappear only when Israel stops its hostility toward...
...doodles (some on display) worth another look. That holds for at least two of his colored chalk sketches. Certainly "Four Nuns at the Beach" took no more than two minutes to finish and Feininger never would have thought to exhibit such things himself, but framed and mounted these sketches arrest attention in gross disproportion to the scant markings that define them...