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...defense witness, not a defendant. And while the headlines referred to it as the POLYGAMY TRIAL, that was not the charge either, though attitudes about polygamy are clearly being put to the test. The defendant, Warren Jeffs, the 51-year-old prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was being tried as an accomplice to rape for commanding Doe to agree to an arranged marriage despite her resistance and instructing her to submit to her husband "mind, body and soul" if she was to have any hope of salvation...
...further damage to the economy. A decade ago, the world also looked to Washington - and, specifically, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - for deliverance from the financial turbulence. This was immortalized in a photograph of IMF chief Michel Camdessus peering over the shoulder of then Indonesian President Suharto, as the latter signed his country's agreement to receive IMF loans...
...civilians. These aggressive steps aren't just a moral imperative; they also make economic sense, since, Collier estimates, a failed state costs its neighbors an average of $64 billion in military spending and lost trade, and can spread dysfunction far beyond its borders (for a prime example of the latter, see Afghanistan). These arguments impel Collier to a sobering conclusion: without radical international intervention, the world's poorest states are likely to remain trapped in a cycle of civil war and near-zero economic growth for decades...
...attack is not noteworthy. But when commenters on the post slammed the author for using terms like “bimbo” and “stereotypical blond” as well as for the lisp comment, CLS responded at length to the former but completely ignored the latter. God forbid someone think him a sexist; no big deal if he slurs stutterers. CLS opens his post with the line, “There are two rampant pack of vultures in modern society. One group is politicians and the other is the press. Neither has much respect for people...
Some candidates choose the latter and embark on a whirlwind tour of the policy world, weighing in on just about every issue and offering specific, programmatic details. It's what John Kerry did in 2004, John McCain and Al Gore did in 2000, and Dick Gephardt did in 1988 - to just name a few. It's not a coincidence that all these candidates were legislators, and none of them...