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...September, Thomas Martin McGouey, 51, of Knoxville, Tennessee attempted to commit suicide by pointing a loaded gun at police officers and provoking them to shoot...
...hijackers' activities in the months leading up to Sept. 11, alongside Moussaoui's doings over a similar time frame. Their tracks were roughly parallel, but direct contact between Moussaoui and the 19 was never alleged. The government charged him with being guilty, like them, of conspiring to commit terrorist acts, to destroy aircraft and to murder federal workers, and related offenses, "with the result that thousands of people died on Sept...
...People are, wisely, hesitant to commit to things across the river, if things might change there,” he said...
...easy to recite a litany of locales (to begin: Rwanda, Chechnya, Kampuchea, Myanmar, Burundi, Uganda) where the U.N. has done nothing in the face of evil. To be fair, part of this blame falls on the individual members of the Security Council for lacking the will and resolve to commit themselves to action. In some horrific cases—notably Kampuchea of the 1970s and Chechnya today—veto-bearing Security Council members were directly complicit in massive human rights violations...
...that does not mean that Harvard can’t fight. Advocates of upholding the state law raise concerns that individuals under 21 years old may drink and drive; but on the Harvard campus shuttle bus service is abundant, and few students have the cars necessary to commit such a dangerous offense. The University has taken a principled stand and defied state and federal laws in the past. During his tenure, former University President Neil L. Rudenstine spoke openly against the drinking age of twenty-one. The College should honor this legacy and no longer tacitly bow to the state?...