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Citing discrepancies in circumstantial evidence, Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz questioned yesterday the integrity of a murder conviction lodged against his most recent client, a New York woman accused of hiring her cousin to kill her estranged husband...
...give people clean water?" Well, you could create new enemies by where you dug the well and who controlled it. You could lose a village by trying to help it. And then there was the matter of what he called COIN mathematics. If there are 10 Taliban and you kill two, how many do you have left? Eight, perhaps. Or there might be two, because six of the remaining eight decide it's just not worth fighting anymore. Or you might have 20 because the brothers and cousins of the two dead fighters decide to take vengeance. "When...
...deputy communications director Dan Pfeiffer, the more hyperbolic attacks on health-care reform this summer, which were often covered as a "controversy," flipped an internal switch. "When you are having a debate about whether or not you want to kill people's grandmother," he explains, "the normal rules of engagement don't apply...
...addition to pressuring Obama on Afghanistan, McCain has criticized the President for what he calls Obama's hypocritical hiring of lobbyists. He blasted the White House's decision to kill a missile-defense project in Eastern Europe planned by Bush. McCain has declined to join bipartisan talks on climate change, though he has written similar legislation in the past. And on health-care reform, an issue that he criticized Obama for being fuzzy about during the campaign, McCain has said, "Americans have made it abundantly clear that they do not want government taking over their health-care decisions...
...Saturday was really rainy, and the rain has a tendency to kill off the breeze a little bit—it was lighter than it would have been otherwise,” Santangelo said. “It was shifty because it was coming off all the buildings in Boston, and it was hard to predict the wind shifts...