Word: intentioned
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...edge to al-Qaeda. "I very carefully vetted everything - making sure it was something al-Qaeda already knew, or that al-Qaeda would not be advantaged by - over the past two years," he tells TIME. "Nothing in this book will in any way help those who have destructive intent and violent desires." Beyond the subway-gas plot, there are other disturbing revelations in Suskind's book that will serve as fodder for terror analysts and pundits to debate, and devour, in coming days...
...professors and students at Harvard and MIT petitioned for divestment from companies doing business with Israel until the country ended its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, Summers called the petition’s signers “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” His conviction lay not in any evidence of the petitioners’ personal anti-Semitism, or of their inaction against racism in Sudan and South Africa, or in any disproof that Israel was committing illegal acts of occupation or violence against its indigenous people—all with extraordinary...
...Memorial Church address, in which he excoriated a group of Harvard and MIT professors who had called on the University to cut financial ties to Israel. “Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent,” Summers said at the time. On Tuesday, one of Britain’s largest unions of university instructors passed a resolution urging its members to boycott speeches by Israeli academics who do not condemn “continuing Israeli apartheid policies, including construction of the exclusion wall...
...Baghdad familiar with the Watt probe finally responded to Ghosh. According to the official, the probe concluded that the civilians were in fact killed by Marines and not by an insurgent's bomb--but that the deaths appeared to be the result of "collateral damage" rather than malicious intent. Nevertheless, the official told Ghosh, the matter had been handed over to a criminal investigation. Over the next five days, the reporting by McGirk and Ghosh continued to be reviewed by TIME editors and Pentagon correspondent Sally B. Donnelly. TIME's story "One Morning in Haditha" was published on March...
...College’s student government was equally intent on solving the problem of inadequate study space. The Freshman Union Committee backed a resolution demanding a 12 a.m. closing time for Lamont, while the student council, believing that a year-round extension was unattainable, favored making permanent Lamont’s extended reading period hours, which had been established as a temporary experiment the previous year...