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...Security Council resolution (Res. 242 of 1967) requires "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict." Not "all the territories." Not even "the territories." Just "territories." As the U.S. ambassador who helped draft the resolution explained, the definite article was deliberately omitted. Why? To permit Israel to withdraw to defensible borders. The 1967 lines are inherently indefensible. They would make central Israel eight miles wide. Eight miles between, say, the massed tank armies of Iraq and Syria to Israel's front and the Mediterranean Sea to its back. This is suicide. Nor, contrary to Abdullah...
...children but also same-sex couples, adopted children and transgender partners and parents. Although no one keeps a precise count, at least 30,000 people have undergone "sex reassignment" surgery since it became widely available in the late 1970s. The law is trying to keep up. Most states now permit transgender persons to change their driver's license and birth certificate to conform to their new status. And 39 cities--beginning with Minneapolis, Minn., in 1975 and now including Denver; Atlanta; Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Rochester, N.Y.--have passed nondiscrimination ordinances protecting transsexuals in schools, jobs and housing...
...party financial institutions for capital assets. We use third-party financing principally to reduce EDS's risk. The financial institution assumes all credit risks associated with the repayment of these customer obligations. The only exposure for EDS is in the unlikely event of nonperformance by our company, which would permit the customer to terminate the contract. We have never had to repay a loan because of contract termination for nonperformance. SCOTT KRENZ, VICE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER, EDS Plano, Texas...
...success of this tribunal in delivering a respected and just decision would be a decisive step in strengthening the place of impartial international courts in world politics. Those courts are essential to hold world leaders personally accountable for atrocities they permit. Leaders must know that they cannot act with impunity simply because they lead a state; they must know that tragedies like those in the former Yugoslavia have criminal repercussions that reach...
President George W. Bush seems determined to make good on his State of the Union pledge that he would not “permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.” And Iraq is number one on Bush’s hit list...