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Although the attackers hit our financial and military capitals in order to condemn U.S. foreign policy, the attack lost its meaning in execution. For on Sept. 11, each individual symbolized an undifferentiated “America,” each a symbol of the American government. The victims’ particular lives were renounced. Further, the attackers exploited the value we give to the individual. They knew that a few localized attacks—on individuals—would bring our whole country, united, to its knees...
...lead to suicide." After it is determined that an individual has a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's, members of the extended family have to convince the team that the person is psychologically strong enough to receive the news if it's bad. The genetic test that will clear or condemn is not done until after the team has seen the person many times. "If we don't believe a person is ready, we don't do the test," says Molinuevo. "It is not that we are withholding information; we will do the test, but later, when the person is prepared...
...SENTENCED. MOHAMMAD KHORDADIAN, 46, Iranian-born American dancer, to a 10-year suspended jail term, for showing videotapes of his dance courses to Iranian youths; in Tehran. Khordadian, who had been living in the U.S. since 1981, had traveled to Iran to see his ailing father. Islamic hard-liners condemn dance as a sin and a crime, and the authorities have barred Khordadian from leaving the country. U.S. officials made no public comment. SENTENCED. IVAN NIKOLIC, 30, a former Yugoslav soldier, to eight years in prison for war crimes during the Kosovo war, in the first trial of its kind...
...force before its pilots had scrambled their jets. In 1981 Israel bombed the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq, an incident that provoked worldwide disapproval. But given what we now know about Saddam Hussein's regime, only the most nit picking of lawyers--admittedly, a large category--would still condemn the action...
...When the speech was originally announced under the “American Jihad” title, a group of about 15 students met with Michael Shinagel, dean of the Extension School and a member of the committee that chose Commencement Day speakers, arguing that the speech did not explicitly condemn the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a violent form of jihad...