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...intentionally use others’ work, and she has publicly accepted responsibility for her actions in a manner that other popular historians in similar situations might do well to emulate. Perhaps hers is simply a case of sloppy scholarship gone out of control. Nevertheless, Goodwin has committed the gravest of academic errors, and therefore cannot continue in her role as leader and overseer of this academic institution...
...doors" so that women could play a greater role in society. But to this day, Saudi women are entirely forbidden to drive and are prohibited from traveling by plane without the permission of a male guardian. Abdullah has approved a population-control campaign to address what may be the gravest long-term threat to stability, a birthrate unofficially put at 4.2%, one of the world's highest. Yet fearing the wrath of religious leaders, who claim that Islamic teaching calls for large families, he has limited the program to giving the green light to newspapers and intellectuals to start raising...
...been a long-standing cultural taboo became a seemingly irreversible religious edict in 1990 after a group of 40 women protested against the prohibition by driving cars in a convoy through downtown Riyadh. Abdullah has green-lighted a very limited population control campaign to address what may be the gravest long-term threat to stability, a birthrate unofficially put at 4.2%, one of the world's highest. (The population of Saudi nationals is 17.4 million.) Yet he fears the wrath of religious leaders, who claim that Islamic teaching calls for large families...
There is only one formal count of genocide--in Bosnia: it's the gravest offense on the war-crimes books but the hardest to prove. Prosecutors must show that Milosevic knowingly intended to wipe out ethnic or religious groups--Bosnia's Croats and Muslims. "Unless you've got an accused saying, 'Yes, I had the intent, and I had the ability to do it,'" says deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt, "you can only submit evidence that will enable the judges to infer that's what was in the accused's mind." Most of the charges fit under the less demanding "crimes...
There is only one formal count of genocide, in Bosnia: it's the gravest offense on the war crimes books but the hardest to prove. Prosecutors must show Milosevic knowingly intended to wipe out, in whole or in part, an ethnic or religious group - Bosnia's Croats and Muslims. "Unless you've got an accused saying, 'Yes, I had the intent, and I had the ability to do it,'" says deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt, "you can only submit evidence that will enable the judges to infer that's what was in the accused's mind." Most of the charges...