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...Abbas did get one boost from Rice: the promise of $80 million in non-lethal aid to improve the training and capability of his feckless security forces. Sources close to the negotiations said this aid would be used for "law and order on the streets" and not for an eventual showdown between Abbas' forces and Hamas. But throwing money and bullet-proof vests at Abbas' security forces may not help Abbas overcome his most dangerous weakness - the loyalty of his men is doubtful. Abbas has yet to get rid of his officers who fled Gaza, leaving their troops behind. Efforts...
...that they run counter to the traditional deference paid to local courts. But this presumes a reasonably functioning local judiciary, and there is scant evidence of that in Colombia. Since 1986 2,515 trade unionists have been murdered there - about 120 a year, making it the world's most lethal country for labor - but there have been only 37 successful prosecutions, leaving a staggering "impunity rate" of 98%, according to Maria McFarland, Human Rights Watch's Colombia expert. This past March, Chiquita Brands International, Inc., pled guilty to one count of "engaging in transactions" with a terrorist organization for paying...
Afterward various heart-driven focus groups said Obama had "won" the debate, but Clinton's moment was telling. It showed a nimble, lethal political intelligence, a quality she has rarely displayed in public before, and a firm grasp of how a smart President operates. Her fate remains at the mercy of Obama's ability to grow, but like any good bran muffin, she is showing some real high-fiber content...
Other disputes, though not lethal, changed lives. In 1883 Sir Francis Galton, an English anthropologist, coined the word eugenics, which he later defined as the study of hereditary factors that "improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations." Inspired by eugenics, a number of U.S. states passed laws in the early 20th century allowing those presumed to have bad genes to be sterilized by government order. In 1927 the case of Carrie Buck, a young woman in a Virginia home for the feebleminded, reached the Supreme Court. Writing for an 8-1 decision, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said...
...complicit in exposing the identity of a U.S. secret agent to our enemies during a time of war - which is in effect what happened with the outing of CIA operative Plame - I would be called a traitor and duckwalked to an electric chair, gas chamber or some form of lethal injection. Sterling Greenwood, ASPEN, COLORADO...