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...dropping leaflets in southern Iraq warning Iraqis not to fire on American warplanes--when it was fired on. Sometimes the scaremongering is done at a remove. Recently the Washington Post and the New York Times ran stories on the same day claiming that the U.S. was ready to commit 250,000 troops to an invasion; the double whammy stank of a calibrated piece of propaganda...
...complaint filed with the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, the MLDEF said Dershowitz’s proposal would violate an article of the Geneva Convention that innocent people cannot be punished for a crime they did not commit...
...room was found partly open, and it had evidently been partly open the greater part of the night.” In the early part of the century, inhaling the gas from the lights used at the time was one of the most common ways to commit suicide...
...anonymous student knew all the details of Cyril Wilcox’s suicide and informed the Acting Dean how Cyril first got involved with the underground gay group. “While in his Freshman year he met in college some boys, mostly members of his own class, who committed upon him and induced him to commit on them ‘Unnatural Acts’ which habit so grew on him that realizing he did not have strength of character enough to brake [sic] away from it concluded suicide the only course open...
...Bush used his Wednesday address on the future of NATO to press the alliance to commit to a more proactive, even preemptive fight against terrorism. "Ours is a military alliance, and every member must make a military contribution to that alliance," he said. " The world needs the nations of this continent to be active in the defense of freedom; not inward-looking or isolated by indifference. Ignoring dangers or excusing aggression may temporarily avert conflict, but they don't bring true peace." And although he said member states were free to choose whether to join the U.S. in a "coalition...