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UNITED STATES Rules for the Rest Disarmament and human-rights experts warned that U.S. rejection or disregard of treaties is undermining efforts in the rest of the world to strengthen international laws. The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy cited international agreements on nuclear testing and proliferation, land-mine bans, climate change and women's and children's rights in their report...
...spiel on dangerous religious groups and was surprised to discover that one of his students had already joined the BCC after being on campus for only one day. The church had even seen to it to warn her that her proctor would speak out against the church but to disregard his admonitions. Over the next four years, she became a frequent subject of student complaints—but also one of the church’s best recruiters...
...NCAA committee was allowed to disregard regional flight considerations when selecting the top four teams in the bracket, each of which receives a first-round bye. Otherwise, any school within 400 miles of a regional site was forced to stay within that region regardless of seeding and prohibited from flying. All six eastern conference teams are based within 400 miles of the Centrum in Worcester, while four of the six teams in the west were farther than 400 miles from either NCAA Regional tournament site...
Bossert says he felt the divide between students and resident children more keenly, recalling “a frustrating sense of superiority [coming] from the masses—more felt during my less-secure high school days—or just plain disregard of us non-students as some sort of incidental infrastructure.” But he soon grew confident in his role as a permanent member of the House community, adopting “an attitude of ‘yeah, but you are in my House’—which is very much...
Pearl’s murder is symbolic of the evil that we face. Their ideology mixes together anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism and an obscene disregard for the value of human life. They cruelly murdered Pearl because he was an American and a Jew. This ideology is found within the al Qaeda organization but is also espoused widely throughout the Muslim world. Preachers of and believers in this ideology are found in the madrassas of Pakistan, the dense jungles of Basilan, the slums of London and Paris, the capitals of Damascus and Teheran and the villages of the West Bank...