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...intend to assert all of our legal rights against Edelman if he engages in future activity that violates the agreement or our proprietary rights,” said N2H2 in its most recent 10-Q filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...assert his stance on nuclear weapons—a statement that received the biggest applause of the evening...
Ristelhueber's Thucydidean concept of the inevitability of human conflict and violence seems to be a particularly insensitive message at a time like this. It is almost offensive to assert--whether explicitly or implicitly--that attacks that kill innocent civilians by the thousands are simply part of an immutable historical continuum. The exhibit is not upsetting for what it shows, but for the inappropriate message it offers. Even if Ristelhueber is able to chronicle one disaster after another with artistic detachment, she (and the MFA) should take into account the need at this time for emotional response and moral valuation...
...cells are either funneled directly into network activity or collected from around Europe by couriers for pooling and redistributing from London - which investigators call the headquarters for Islamist terrorism in Europe. In addition to the evidence linking Bensaïd and Belkacem to the 1995 blasts, French prosecutors assert there are records of wire transfers from a suspected Islamist named Rachid Ramda, as well as the duo's own detailed accounting of how that money was spent to prepare strikes. Terrorist attacks are relatively inexpensive. According to investigators' estimates, the entire 1995 Paris campaign cost no more than...
...embracing President Summers’ belief that signing the petition constitutes “an action which is anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent.” Dershowitz, who has elsewhere made it clear that he believes the signing to be an act of anti-Semitism, may assert whatever he likes, but when he does so he cannot then demand, or expect, the attendance of those he so charges at the sort of Star Chamber he proposes. In that he would bring his assertion with him as a premise to and focus of any debate with Hanson, Hanson...