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...Terrorists in all countries should be tirelessly resisted, their plots foiled, their goals frustrated, their members apprehended, their supporters pried away. Yet even so, we must oppose the recent Israeli assassination of Yassin, along with all other assassinations by all sovereign governments. The rule of law is the most potent weapon in the arsenal of democratic countries, and it, not missile strikes, is the most just and effective way to deal with even the most violent lawbreakers...
Last year’s runner-up, the Big Red comes back with a Big Bang. Cornell has perhaps the most potent 3-4-5 trio in the Ivies with senior center fielder Kate Varde, junior shortstop Lauren May, and junior catcher Melissa Heintz. Varde and Heintz were both First Team All-Ivy, and Varde led the league in hitting. Varde has had trouble picking up where she left off, and is batting only .222 so far this year. But Heintz and May, a Second Team All-Ivy pick, have more than compensated. Through 15 games, Heintz has batted...
...including the U.S., have had some form of indigenous terrorist group. But now security officials are concerned that the calculations of these often unknown groups have changed. They may think they must create mass casualties or risk being ignored by the media. The Internet is replete with recipes for potent bombs whose ingredients are easily procured in hardware stores. Worse concoctions--from plastic high explosives to radioactive material--are available on the international gray and black markets...
...death. Here, the son of God is a wholly human figure, and Gibson constantly reminds his audience of this with an unceasing depiction of shredded flesh and spattered blood. The effect is alternately piercing and numbing. Nevertheless, Gibson eventually succeeds in overwhelming his audience with the kind of potent visual poignancy unseen in his previous directorial work. The telling of the story is equally effective, as screenwriters Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald (Wise Blood) find most of their narrative might in the passion plays’ minor characters. Though violence is the film’s major theme, what resonates from...
Serving as the focal point of his line’s potent offensive attack, Cavanagh continued to dictate the flow of play while on the ice, skirting the Brown trap while applying defensive pressure...