Word: foe
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...much it would take to truly foolproof the structure I’m standing on—what it would take to search every car, to reinforce every beam and cable, to install the necessary guns atop each tower. And still, even in this wildly hypothetical case, the new foe, evil’s newfound creativity, would continue to find ways around the latest roadblocks. There is a risk, a vulnerability simply in existing...
...help she needs. Experts from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Cato Institute are crying foul over an Administration strategy that puts Padilla at the center of a sobering constitutional question: Can the President label an American citizen an "enemy combatant"--a hostile agent of a foreign foe--order the military to hold him indefinitely and prevent him from seeing his lawyers? That's what President Bush has done. Civil libertarians began speaking out last November, when Bush announced that some terrorists would be tried before military tribunals. But Padilla's case gives them their first real chance...
...head of outpatient psychological services at Washington's Children's Hospital in the 1980s, Horn saw the effects of broken homes and absent fathers. The experience pushed him to the right. His wife's becoming pregnant with two girls made him, he says, more sensitive to fetuses and a foe of legal abortion. In the Administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, Horn was a mid-level appointee on family issues. Though the Bush years were marked by Dan Quayle's Murphy Brown speech about the importance of fathers to single-mom families, the government did little to promote marriage...
...season began promisingly enough with a 3-1 home win over crosstown rival MIT and a gritty 3-1 road victory over league foe Southampton. But untimely injuries and positional changes disrupted the team’s chemistry and led to a tough 3-0 road loss to league power Vassar in the next game...
...Noted "There is a common enemy out there." LORD ROBERTSON, Secretary-General of nato, on why the alliance that was established to contain Russia now accepts this former foe as a junior partner...