Word: doubtfulness
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...interview with The Crimson yesterday, Dershowitz said the prosecution’s case prior to the conviction rested solely on circumstantial evidence that failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Borukhova had hired Mallayev to kill her husband, an orthodontist...
...That's all true. But Obama has been in office eight months. His ambitious plans for a peace deal in the Middle East and a nuclear-free world are just getting started. No doubt the Nobel Committee want this prize to add momentum to those plans. But the award also risks adding to the huge burden of expectations that Obama carried when he entered office. The reality of governing has already proved how ridiculous many of those expectations were. (See pictures of Obama's nation of hope...
...Still, most Central Asia watchers doubt the capabilities of militants there, whether connected to al-Qaeda or devoted to more local struggles. Both Moscow and Beijing have wielded their influence among Central Asia's authoritarian governments to ensure that radical strains of political Islam get largely quashed. Uighur dissidents in exile have also repeatedly rejected any connection with terrorist activity and argue that, despite a few incidents of bombings and attacks in China, China exploits the specter of a terrorist threat to further repress Uighur rights. Al-Qaeda's recent statement does their cause few favors. "China could...
Elizabeth B. Graber ’11, an enthusiastic dancer who made it to the later rounds of play, had a clear strategy for success. “When in doubt, swing dance. If that doesn’t work, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy...
...Obama has made some mistakes on Afghanistan, and so has the military, but having a six-month strategic review is not one of them. No doubt, the President should have spoken with McChrystal more than once over the summer. The military's mistake was going ahead with a flawed battle plan that did not secure Kandahar, the second largest Afghan city and the fulcrum of the insurgency. That mistake made the six-month strategy review necessary, as did two other factors: the disastrously corrupt Afghan presidential election and a vastly improved capability to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda, which...