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...team, arrested by Iranian forces after straying into Iranian waters during a storm. The sailors quickly apologized on TV, and after four tense days they were released as moderates in Tehran apparently prevailed in an internal power struggle. But hard-liners in the Revolutionary Guards had seemed eager to goad London, suggesting the men were special forces. According to Sadegh Ziba Kalam, professor of political science at the University of Tehran, Iran wanted to show "that it is a powerful country in the region that cannot be circumvented and ignored." Tehran has lots of reasons not to appear meek these...
...reporters in the room seemed less interested in whether Bush would keep his word than in whether he would admit fallibility. The event felt more like an intervention, with a psychoanalytic press corps trying to goad the president into admitting that he had made a mistake, if not in the run up to 9/11, then in his administration?s cheerful prediction that coalition forces would be met with cheers or that there?d be weapons of mass destruction turned into ploughshares when the U.S. pulled into Baghdad. They tried to make the press conference a presidential 12-step program...
...Part of terrorism is to goad democracies into illiberal responses,” he said. “The...task is to find the tools that are required for law officials to respond effectively while at the same time realizing that there will be opportunities for abuses...
...Lambda President Amanda C. Goad, a second-year HLS student, offered a tempered response to Tuesday’s developments...
According to HLS Lambda President Amanda C. Goad, a second-year law student, today’s brief does not preclude the possibility that individual Lambda members or the group as a whole will file a separate suit challenging the Pentagon’s policy...