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...course, because it involves a regime whose power is built primarily on fear graphically demonstrating its ultimate weakness by being forced to open the gates of Saddam's palaces whenever a bunch of scientists in baseball caps demand to poke around. And, of course, there's always the danger that the inspectors will uncover evidence of weapons programs - if that happens, expect the Iraqis to dissemble, proclaiming them leftovers or the work of rogue officers and inviting UNMOVIC to destroy them...
...never stopped rallying, so weary voters dumped him when the danger receded. "There went out of British public life," laments Cannadine, "a splendour of utterance which it seems highly unlikely will ever be seen or heard or witnessed again." Britain is a smaller place today, a sound-bite world where people are less interested in eloquence than in property prices and sex scandals. They would do well to hark back to their hero. "The day may dawn," declared Churchill in his 1955 parliamentary farewell, "when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable...
Hitchens argued that civilians would be in greater danger than soldiers under the threat of mass-destruction weapons...
Schools must also remember that there is a danger in enforcing too harsh a punishment policy. Some schools, like the University of Virginia, have the same punishment—expulsion—for every case of academic dishonesty. These “one-strike” policies don’t allow for mistakes, and are often seen as too harsh—making some students and teachers uncomfortable about turning cheating in when they...
...least 130 people have been killed on Mt. Washington since 1849—more than on any other mountain in North America—and even experienced hikers aren’t immune to danger on the mountain, said Nicholas Howe, author of Not Without Peril: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Misadventure on the Presidential Range of New Hampshire...