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Both the defense and the prosecution used an HIID Overseas Assignment time sheet filled out and signed by Shleifer as evidence to bolster their arguments...
...genuinely apathetic. In an environment such as Harvard, where voter apathy is always a matter of concern and where participation in electoral processes is always heartily encouraged, to force those people without candidate preferences out of the system altogether renders useless the voter participation rates used to bolster arguments about student voter apathy. In short, everybody loses...
...Sources say prosecutors still have no plans to charge the AIPAC officials with whom Franklin was in contact. The objective of today?s searches, the sources say, is to attempt to find evidence that could bolster the case now being assembled by federal prosecutors in Alexandria...
...Pattani's Lak Muang temple, barefoot monks pad past sandbagged bunkers while soldiers keep fit and earn merit by jogging around a giant whitewashed stupa. But monks are quietly fleeing, say local Buddhists, and some soldiers have taken leave to be ordained as monks in a desperate attempt to bolster monastic numbers...
Israel is trying to bolster Abbas without openly embracing him. In a speech to Likud activists last week, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon backed away from long-standing demands that, as a starting point for peace negotiations, Palestinian leaders disarm militant organizations. Instead, Sharon hinted, he is willing to resume talks with Arafat's successors if they reduce anti-Israeli "incitement" in the Palestinian media and schools. But both sides know the era of good feeling may last only until the next terrorist attack. While Abbas is trying to secure an agreement from Hamas and Islamic Jihad not to strike before...