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...think if [the decision] had been a totally rational one, I wouldn’t have gone into politics,” Santos says. “Here, to be a politician is very risky.” Indeed, only last week the two survived a bomb attack on their motorcade. “Though our lives are in danger at every second,” Santos says, “my interest in helping this country go forward goes before personal, family, professional and the paper’s interests...
...missile strike from a rogue state or an attack from a foreign military highly unlikely, but the devastation caused by an attack on a nuclear facility—or, even worse, if terrorists were able to steal fissile material—could dwarf the effect of any conventional bomb. Yet a completed missile defense project may cost hundreds of billions before its completion, and the Department of Defense will spend over $7.8 billion just this year. Though securing nuclear facilities requires only a fraction of this money, it has still not been fully funded...
...bombers somehow never decide to kill themselves. In reality, these “martyrs” are really just being used as inexpensive missiles—inexpensive because the only cost is human life. No one is worried about Yasser Arafat using his body to carry a bomb. Nor do we find the limbs of high-ranking members of Hammas strewn about Jerusalem pizza parlors. These leaders are less willing to die for the cause than they are to send others to die instead...
...Peru. This is the fourth in a series of criminal charges against Fujimori, who has lived in self-imposed exile in his parents' native Japan since November 2000. SENTENCED. FATHUR ROHMAN AL-GHOZI, 31, Indonesian national arrested in Manila in January for ties to terrorist groups and a failed bomb plot in Singapore, to 10 to 12 years in prison for the illegal possession of explosives; in General Santos City, Philippines. SENTENCED. THOMAS CRANDALL, 47, Roman Catholic priest, to four years and three months in prison by order of a federal justice for dealing drugs from his Florida rectory...
...grandest shot of all came with Harvard ahead 5-0 in the sixth. Mann, who had doubled in his first at-bat, hit an absolute bomb to straightway left field. The moonshot hovered around the top of a lightstand when it cleared the fence and elicited a chorus of oohs and aahs from the Harvard dugout...