Word: insisting
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...investigation rather than dispute the findings of the report. The constant—and often violent—struggle between Israel and the Palestinian territories is one of the major sources of stress for the entire world, not merely the U.S. But since both sides will likely continue to insist upon their own innocence, we may as well hope, in the admirable spirit of U.N. naivete, for a much larger step toward peace...
Many of your subjects were also investigated as murder cases. There are a lot of conspiracy theorists who insist some of these people were actually killed, and we address those questions. Some say musician Elliott Smith could not possibly have stabbed himself through the chest without help. And everyone from authors to filmmakers have long believed that Courtney Love was involved in Kurt Cobain's death. Ultimately, we left it to the professionals. If the police report ruled it a suicide, we ruled it a suicide...
...published in June. POGO has said it has lost confidence in the State Department and called for the Pentagon, which has a mixed but improving record at handling contractors, to "immediately" take over supervision of the guards. The State Department, which has launched a number of investigations, continues to insist that, as appalling as the guards' behavior was, embassy safety was never actually jeopardized...
...Atlanta Olympics, seven genetically male athletes with AIS were allowed to compete as women. On Friday, the IAAF emphasized that Semenya's gender verification tests were a medical issue, not a doping one, and there were no insinuations that the athlete - whose family in South Africa insist she is female - cheated...
...have to continually insist that there is a - there is a special benefit to society in the hands-on, face-to-face service of working at a soup kitchen or mentoring a child or visiting seniors in a nursing home that is irreplaceable. It not only is good for the person getting the service; it's good for the person who's giving the service. And there's nothing new about that. That's - that is something elemental about the human spirit is that...