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...require further clarification. In the 2002 book, Dershowitz considers a scenario in which a democratic government captures a terrorist who "knows or probably knows the location of a number of bombs...set to go off within the next twenty-four hours." Dershowitz wrote that the government could "forgo any use of torture and simply allow the preventable terrorist act to occur." But he acknowledged that such an approach would provoke "a great outcry in any democracy," and that in such a scenario, the United States probably would find a way to facilitate the torture of the suspect. He writes...
...disallow residents from resettling those areas that numerous independent parties have deemed most vulnerable or unlivable. In the spirit of saving millions of federal funds on regions that are particularly prone to flooding as well as preempting the logistical and emotional nightmare of future relocations, the government should forgo those expenditures and focus on more viable and essential regions of the city. Of course, ignoring the cries of the several lobbyist groups that have balked at such a ban will not be easy. Those areas that would likely be barred from resettlement would comprise New Orleans’ hardest...
Until she quit in 1996, Stonesifer was the highest-ranking female executive at Microsoft, and she got generous stock options to go with it. As a result, she has chosen to forgo a salary at the foundation. But she runs it with the ferocity of a Wall Street titan. When she met with Senator Jesse Helms on Capitol Hill, he called her a spark plug--twice. "None of us knew much about health," she says. "We just kept finding people whom we trusted. And we learned and learned. We used the same skills we'd applied to business prospects...
When you enter this landmark, forgo any ideas you had of putting ketchup on your burger. Louis’ claims to have invented the hamburger in 1900 and believes that theirs are so good, ketchup can only ruin the flavor. For a less intense, yet just as historical hamburger, try The Yankee Doodle, in the middle of downtown New Haven...
...allow military recruiters access to on-campus resources, Dean Elena Kagan of the Harvard Law School (HLS) faced a difficult choice. She could compromise the Law School’s anti-discrimination policy by allowing military recruiters onto the HLS campus. Or, she could force the University to forgo $400 million in federal funding (15 percent of Harvard University’s operating budget) to make a statement against the military’s discriminatory policies towards gays and lesbians. Obviously, this was not her choice to make. The financial well-being of the University takes precedent over the policies...