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Tanaka said he and his fellow protestors used a “necessity defense” during the trial. They claimed that they had broke the law because they were faced with an “imminent threat”—namely that the budget cuts were a direct threat to the protestors and those with whom they worked...
...time Kidd was promoted to associate dean last year, the friction between her and PBHA was a distant memory, and she had won admiration for being accessible to students. But when the SafetyWalk story broke, old criticisms of Kidd’s team reemerged...
After Turano broke his left ankle only 3:45 into the second game of the season at Vermont on Nov. 7, he was driven back to Boston immediately after the game for X-rays, and underwent surgery a week later...
...because he signed an agreement to disarm. And I thought it was critical for us and the world to hold him accountable to it. But there was a right way to do it, and there was a wrong way to do it. George Bush chose the wrong way and broke his promises to us about how he would go about it. It is particularly important for me that leaders keep faith with the American people about how they send young men to die. And I believe it ought to be done with a maximum amount of support and the maximum...
...point where he could explain his stance coherently. He finally argued that he had to vote as though he were President--that for Bush to maximize his leverage at the U.N., he needed to show that Congress was behind him. But then, Kerry argues, Bush broke his side of the deal by barely going through the motions to assemble the kind of international coalition that his father had 11 years before, stomping headlong into war, trampling valuable alliances and precedents, and then utterly botching the peace...