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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Calling Republican presidential nominee John McCain “a warrior and a patriot,” Paarlberg noted that the Arizona senator enjoys gambling and confrontation. He said McCain would use American military power only to “advance national interest or protect national honor...

Author: By Adeline S. Rolnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prof: Dems Win in Economic Crises | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...area in a week," says Akhunzada Chettan, a lawmaker from a part of Bajaur, and there have been similar successes in Dir and, reportedly, Lakki Marwat. These developments are significant, officials say, because in the past the tribes had feared that the army would fail to protect them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time and Money Running Out for Pakistan | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...Indeed, she gives a truly great performance. It's never easy for an actor to sustain our sympathy when a role is grounded in radical passivity. But she conveys in I've Loved You So Long's opening sequences a sense that her silences are willed attempts to protect herself from her own guilt at the crime - I don't think it spoils anything to identify it as a mercy killing - for which she has paid her debt. She is not quite dead, but she is in need of life support, and when she gets it, in minuscule increments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Modest Triumph of I've Loved You So Long | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...We’re not just trying to protect HRL’s message, we’re trying to protect the freedom of expression for all student groups,” he said, differentiating between the group’s most recent complaints and those it has made in the past...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Dean Stresses Free Speech After Vandalism of Right to Life Posters | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...risks of sharing one’s genome sequence are significantly lower than they were last spring, when the PGP-10 agreed to embark on this project. In May, Congress passed the first piece of legislation to protect against discrimination based on an individual’s genetic information for health insurance and employment opportunities...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Prof's Personal Genome Project Reveals DNA Secrets | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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