Word: hunts
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...Arafat's old commanders are little better than gangsters, men who made fortunes when they arrived from exile in Tunis in 1994 by siphoning off aid, creating monopolies, grabbing property, and running protection rackets. Hamas militants, by contrast, have a reputation for discipline and honesty and have vowed to hunt down corrupt Fatah officials. Nor does it help that in 1996, as Arafat tried to wipe out opposition to him, dozens of Islamic militants were jailed, tortured and murdered by his supporters. "Fatah guys were worse than the Israelis," recalled a member of a third militant group, Islamic Jihad...
...while Meiring says the trc was a vital part of "our healing" and "profoundly important in creating a new South Africa," he also recognizes that it was an extraordinarily painful process to many South Africans. A good portion of the country's whites considered the trc a witch hunt, and some blacks still resent the idea of amnesty. To work, the process requires certain prerequisites: near saintly leadership, a genuine commitment to uncover the truth, however ugly, behind crimes and "a sense that forgiveness is balanced by justice." Then, says Meiring, "the opportunity to look the perpetrators...
...Allen, an advocate of home-schooling and abstinence education, is extremely well known to conservative activists as the press secretary to former Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina in his tough 1984 reelection race against then-Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., a Democrat. In 2003, Bush nominated Allen to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., but Democrats objected and there was never a confirmation hearing. Allen was Secretary of Health and Human Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1998 to 2001, appointed by former Gov. Jim Gilmore, and came...
...whole time, we were just having a lot of fun.” The win for Harvard came at an opportune time. With games at Vassar and East Stroudsburg this weekend, the Crimson needs two wins if it wants to realistically stay in the Hay Division title hunt. Now riding only its second multiple-match winning streak of the season, the team hopes that the energy it has created will carry into the weekend. “We’re far and away the more talented team in our league, but we stumble when we?...
...Looby practically snorts at this: ?What about a woman who decides to continue a pregnancy? Is that clouded judgment as well?? Hunt himself acknowledges, as long as we are probing moral consistency, that if the doctor is taking a life, ?why not charge a higher-class felony?? It?s just part of the balancing act, he says. If you want to save unborn children you have to target the doctors. But ?my feeling is that whether a doctor were facing 5 years or 20, it will have the same impact...