Word: condemned
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...miles out, but none of that has been done." Capitol police were slow to move as well. There was no increased security, no heightened alert around the Capitol for fully half an hour after the New York attack. Senate minority leader Trent Lott was drafting a press release to condemn the attack when he looked outside his window and saw black smoke billowing up from across the Potomac. He didn't wait for an evacuation order. He gathered up his top staff and security detail and headed out of the Capitol, shocked to find that tourists were still walking into...
...effectiveness of the military tactics used thus far to end the Palestinian uprising - not least because the suicide bomber in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya appears to have been a local Israeli-Arab, rather than an infiltrator from the West Bank. Even though Israeli-Arab leaders rushed to condemn the attack, the idea that Palestinian Islamist groups such as Hamas have support networks among the 1 million of their brethren that live inside Israel-proper is a sobering one for Israel's security establishment...
...girls passing through their neighborhood in order to protest alleged Republican attacks. Police say extremist paramilitaries from both sides of the sectarian divide are active in the area. But the scale of the violence and hatred in Ardoyne has now prompted the leaders of most Loyalist parties to condemn the protestors...
...lessons in this for us. These episodes remind us that universities are often the product and beneficiary of the great interests (in this case what used to be called the “slave power”). As a result, they are often more likely to justify than to condemn those interests. Professor McWhorter is just another in a long line of teachers, stretching back to the leading pro-slavery authors of the 1800s, who believe with Alexander Pope that “whatever is, is right.” He may honestly, if mistakenly, believe that slavery was morally...
...that score, the senior British delegate, Lady Amos, says most European governments are happy to condemn modern slavery as a "crime against humanity," but they refuse to do the same for the historic slave trade, because that would have "legal implications." (In other words, slavery is a crime for which the likes of Sudan will be held liable, but that standard won't apply for Britain, France or the United States.) Still, she offers by way of consolation, that Britain and the Europeans would be happy to use "very strong wording" to denounce the historic slave trade, even going...