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Meanwhile, Israelis will continue to live in perpetual fear of bodily harm and grievous loss from bombers while Palestinians suffer the consequences of Israel's vengeful reprisals. And mothers like Ibtisam Daragmeh will stare at images of children they thought they knew. Children who, in their "martyrdom videos," hold Kalashnikovs and wear fatigues. Ibtisam's son Mohammed, 19, blew himself up in Jerusalem on March 2, after positioning himself next to a group of women with baby carriages waiting for their husbands to leave a bar mitzvah ceremony. He killed nine other people and injured more than...
Although Ogletree’s reparations plan brings greater prominence to the issue of modern racial disparities, it is neither a constructive nor practical means of dealing with the most shameful part of America’s history. Any attempt at reparations would most likely cause more harm than good...
Harvard’s name will inevitably be associated with any research undertaken under its auspices. Instead of only finding out about problems like this after the fact, increased substantive oversight would prevent researchers from neglecting the rights of their subjects. No harm to the Chinese subjects has been reported in this case, but greater scrutiny must be given to projects in which the University has a stake. Harvard’s interest should never endanger the welfare of research subjects...
...said America’s current support of the global small-arms trade—and the support of other industrialized nations—harm the prospects for democracy in many developing countries...
...Bush administration had hoped to get Arafat to renounce violence without a reciprocal commitment from Sharon to do anything more than ease up on security measures. That approach has failed. But if the endpoint is a two-state solution, then there's no harm in combining cease-fire efforts with moves to reopen negotiations over ending the occupation. The counter-argument has been that this would "reward violence." But that's simply denial of the obvious - the only reason the Israelis started talking to the Palestinians in the first place was because they were in a state of violent rebellion...