Word: commitments
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Shipler is also angered by the relatively light sentences often handed out to Israeli extremists who commit violence--and rightly so. But his sense of outrage is rarely tempered with a recognition that Palestinains who commit violence are heroes and celebrities on the West Bank. Jews who support terorism must be as surreptitious as Arabs who oppose...
...week, the trial of Eugene Hasenfus began. Escorted by six guards, the jeans-clad ex-Marine glumly made his way to a seat before the People's Tribunal. For the next 80 minutes, Tribunal President Reynaldo Monterrey read the list of charges: terrorism, violation of public security, conspiracy to commit illicit acts. As Monterrey droned on, it became clear that more was at stake than the fate of Hasenfus, who was captured ferrying weapons to U.S.-backed contra rebels after Sandinista troops shot down an American ! Fairchild C-123K cargo plane over Nicaragua three weeks ago. The prosecution would attempt...
...Republic, this so-called ethical dilemma has been making headlines nationwide ever since Washington Postcolumnist Richard Cohen wrote about the issue in early September. Apparently, many Washington jewelers have chosen not to admit young black men, and, according to Cohen, that's just fine. After all, these people commit an inordinately large percentage of robberies, and business is business. It's not racism, just common sense...
Despite this valiant attempt, the respondents are not able to escape the normative issues at hand. While Blacks commit more crime than whites, the difference between men and women, and between the young and the old, is much more significant. Why do we not hear of high-crime white neighborhoods where jewelers refuse to admit men or young people...
...insists otherwise. "We're not just keeping people out based on their ideology," protests INS Spokesman Verne Jervis. "We keep them out based on solid information that they are coming to this country to commit serious mischief." Lara's attorney, Arthur Helton, of the New York City-based Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, says he plans to seek out the basis of the charges against her through requests under the Freedom of Information Act. "She questions whether she wants to come back," he says. "But it is important for her to obtain the right to come back...