Word: defection
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...Still, Baghdad will be far from comfortable at the prospect of individuals who may have damning evidence against the regime being allowed to spill the beans free from the threat of reprisals against themselves or their loved ones, and then defect to the West. But UNMOVIC is determined to conduct such interviews before its January 27 deadline for reporting back to the Security Council, and Iraq has been put on notice that any interference in the process will be viewed by the Council as the sort of demonstrable non-cooperation that would be taken as "material breach" that could trigger...
...tend to go into a frenzy of denial when members of the liberal media cabal bring up these inconvenient facts. It's that lack of candor, of course, that presents the biggest obstacle to George W. Bush's commendable and long overdue campaign to persuade more African-Americans to defect from the Democrats to the Republicans. It's doomed to fail until the GOP fesses up its past addiction to race-baiting, and makes a sincere attempt to kick the habit...
...Remember the folks who put out the daily paper. We do almost the same exact thing every day, 150 times in a year. Almost all of us either are drawn to this vocation by some sort of serious personality defect or else become progressively crazier as we clock more and more hours at 14 Plympton. It’s easy for the president of The Crimson, whose job is to think about things much bigger and more far-reaching than the daily operations of the paper, to take for granted that the next morning there will be six news stories...
...infamous right-hand man of mafioso John Gotti, did not turn himself in to the FBI in a contrite moment. But mob informers, at least, have some credible punishment over their heads—gargantuan jail sentences. By contrast, Iraqi scientists have little to fear from anyone until they defect...
...Capitol office, pulled out a bronze name plate from a bottom drawer and put it on top of the senator's desk. MAJORITY LEADER was engraved on the plaque under Lott's name. Lott never considered Daschle's coup 18 months ago, which got Vermont Sen. James Jefford to defect and gave Democrats control of the Senate, a legitimate transfer of power. He was never able to digest it. So he never threw away that plaque, but rather kept it stored in his bottom desk drawer. And in the waiting room outside Lott's office, Daschle's photo was never...