Word: intents
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...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...
...Summers said that "there is much that should be, indeed that must be, debated regarding Israeli policy…But the academic boycott resolution passed by the British professors union in the way that it singles out Israel is in my judgment anti-Semitic in both effect and in intent...
Summers' statement is notable in part because he said that NAFTHE's actions were intentionally anti-Semitic. In his 2002 Memorial Church speech, Summers held out the possibility that supporters of the Israel divestment petition might not be anti-Semitic “in intent...
...Hayden was sworn in at the CIA. Beese said he believed Kappes was taken by surprise by Negroponte's announcement at the White House that he was recruiting Kappes to return to the CIA. The CIA did not confirm that Kappes' return has been finalized. "Director Hayden mentioned his intent to bring Steve Kappes back during his address to the workforce on Tuesday," says CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck. But Kappes would still have to clear the normal CIA and federal government employment processing and paperwork before actually starting the post...
...Kilo Company stuck by their story throughout the initial inquiry, but what they told the first military investigator raised suspicions. One of the most glaring discrepancies involved the shooting of the four students and the taxi driver. "They had no weapons, they didn't show hostile intent, so why shoot them?" the military source says. Khaled Raseef, a spokesman for the victims' relatives, says U.S. military investigators visited the alleged massacre sites 15 times and "asked detailed questions, examined each bullet hole and burn mark and took all sorts of measurements. In the end, they brought all the survivors...