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That loss could not deter from what had been a record season for the Crimson. Not only did it post the most wins in the program's history, but it also saw the emergence of many bright young players...
...says William McDaniel, the aide's lawyer, who says he's preparing to sue the Wagging Tongue of the Web for libel. "People who use the Internet feel they're not subject to the same constraints as everyone else," McDaniel says. A lawsuit will "deter Drudge and people like him from doing this in the future...
...itself, there are dozens of agents and members of the Air Force, deployed so that no one can leave the press area unnoticed. Onscreen, the Secret Service is out of position, and the Air Force personnel have disappeared completely. The real plane has fancy flares and infrared devices to deter a missile attack--much more effective than the chaff, intended to confuse radar, used in the movie...
...have a stake in establishing a precedent that will deter future atrocities, in helping the tribunal make a lasting peace easier by separating the innocent from the guilty; in holding accountable the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing; and in seeing that those who consider rape just another tactic of war answer for their crimes. Since George Marshall's time, the United States has played the leading role within the international system--not as sole arbiter of right and wrong, for that is a responsibility widely shared, but as pathfinder--as the nation able to show the way when others cannot...
...produced financial meltdown; or as the generation that laid the groundwork for rising prosperity around the world. We will be known as the world-class ditherers, who stood by while the seeds of renewed global conflict were sown; or as the generation that took strong measures to forge alliances, deter aggression and keep the peace...