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...refused to comply with this clear statutory command. Instead, it has offered a laundry list of reasons not to regulate...
...long—American women have had the vote for less than a hundred years, for example—that these forms are acceptable, necessary even. Yet if it is a state of gender equality we are striving for, then enhancing divides between the genders undermines the mission. To command the respect of society, it is helpful to respect that society to begin with...
...little doubt that the rising junior class will lead by experience. But the question still lingers: which rising senior will be the leader at the blue line? The past four captains of Harvard hockey have all been defensemen—will any blueliner from the Class of 2008 command that level of respect...
There are less eleemosynary reasons to chance a private loan. You can generally command a higher rate than you would get with a bank CD, even while offering the borrower a lower rate than would be available through a bank. Radena Stager, 28, borrowed $440,000 from her parents two years ago to purchase a home in Cupertino, Calif. She's paying a fixed rate of 4.9%, vs. the 5.9% market rate at the time. "I'm in more house than I could ever have afforded on my own," she says. Mom and Dad, meanwhile, are enjoying income above what...
...Normally, vanished intelligence officers barely merit one short paragraph on page eight. Asgari is different, though. As the IRGC commander in Lebanon in the late '80s and early '90s, he knows dirty secrets, secrets that could be used to justify going to war with Iran. Asgari was in the IRGC's chain of command when it was kidnapping and assassinating Westerners in Lebanon in the '80s. Asgari knows a lot about other IRGC-ordered, Lebanon-based terrorist attacks, including the October 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut and the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia...