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Sept. 11 wasn't the first foreign attack to foil the statue's visitors. For 30 years, Lady Liberty's 29-foot torch was accessible via service ladder. But early on the morning of July 30, 1916, as World War I raged in Europe, German agents attacked a waterfront munitions depot in nearby Jersey City, N.J., triggering a massive explosion that caused the equivalent of more than $2 million in damage to the statue. The torch never re-opened...
...Lankan government has denied that government forces were responsible for the attack and called the doctor's report a fabrication. "There is absolutely no way that this doctor could have used a telephone, dialed BBC, or CNN or al-Jazeera, and said that the shelling was coming from the government side and so many people have been killed," says Mahinda Samarasinghe, Sri Lankan Minister for Human Rights and Disaster Management. No one within areas held by the Tigers can act independently and are under pressure from the Tigers, Samarasinghe says. "There may have been a gun pointed at the doctor...
...Nesson is the guiding force at clinical meetings, seated at his large, elbowed desk, arms often clasped behind his head. The team’s legal argument has never lacked for novelty. When he initially took the Tenenbaum case, Nesson made it clear that he would launch a constitutional attack on the so-called “Digital Theft Deterrence Act,” which mandates damages of up to $150,000 for willful copyright infractions. Such a scale for damages was disproportionate to any harm committed, the team suggested, putting it in violation of the constitutional provision against...
...decrease the violence along the border between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Korean problem, however, remained largely unresolved. "With the Korean Peninsula," says Perritt, "the problem is bigger than just military." The conclusions drawn from the exercise, he said, were more "informational and cultural." The response to a North Korean attack, he says, would have to require diplomatic, humanitarian and other solutions, including the involvment of many other allies. That does not bode well for the world beyond the games, where Pyongyang remains a frightening question mark...
...case of the North Korea scenario, the Blue forces decided to launch measured air strikes as an initial move. "The military is one of the options we have to use. The problem here is complex. You don't really have your full-frontal attack with the North Korean Army coming," says U.S. Army Col. Chris Chae, blue team lead for the North Korea panel...