Word: intents
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...Kuntar, a Lebanese citizen who was part of a Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) cell that in 1979 arrived by boat in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya and invaded the apartment of the Haran family. Smadar Haran hid in the attic with her daughter Yael, 2, and was so intent on stifling the girl's crying that she accidentally suffocated the child. Meanwhile, members of the cell took Danny Haran and daughter Einat, 4, back to the shore where, realizing escape was impossible, Kuntar shot Danny in the back and drowned him, then battered Einat's head on beach rocks...
...film Mann made for MGM after his very productive stint at Eagle-Lion. It's essentially a remake of T-Men: two agents go undercover in the underworld; one dies. Pablo Rodriguez (Ricardo Montalban) has come from Mexico to join U.S. Immigration official Jack Bearnes (George Murphy) with the intent - get this - of stanching the flow and exploitation of illegal farm workers coming up from Mexico. Pablo will pretend to be a bracero looking for a fast way into the country; Jack will cover his back. Border Incident has a liberal heart; it does not blame the Mexican laborers...
...original intent of the framers was to require the president to either sign or veto a bill presented by Congress,” the report said, noting that the president vetoed his first bill just this month. “The president must defend the entire Constitution, and that includes the [stipulation] that the president ‘shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed...
Thomas currently faces charges of assault and battery, breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, and destruction of property in Cambridge District Court for a June 5 incident in his ex-girlfriend's Currier House dorm room...
...unwillingness to criticize Bush has its roots in politics. "He flew too close to the sun," said a Connecticut Democrat who believes that Lieberman played nice with the President in the hope of securing both the Democratic and the Republican nominations for Senate this year. (The G.O.P. seems intent on running a hapless benchwarmer named Alan Schlesinger for the seat.) No politician is exempt from hubris, and so there may be something to the theory. But an almost saintly civility has always been part of Lieberman's modus operandi. His unflappable strength in facing down extremists of both parties...