Word: protect
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...internationally recognized as a day to salute those around the world who struggle to defend, protect, and promote the fundamental freedoms that are the birthright of all mankind. We may be in the 21st century, but millions of people are still fighting for the liberties we enjoy in this country. Recognition of such abuses throughout the world is the first step in the fight against them...
...draw on later when playing better players.” With a little under two months before its next scheduled competitive match, Harvard will have plenty of time to think about what it has learned and how to apply it. With an unbeaten record, the men have much to protect. —Staff writer Vincent R. Oletu can be reached at voletu@fas.harvard.edu...
...uses his method to quickly win mega-bucks from crime boss Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), who responds, not surprisingly, by ordering a hit on Green. Out of the shadows emerge “brothers” Zach and Avi (Vincent Pastore and André Benjamin, a.k.a. Andre 3000), who protect Green in exchange for help in their loan-sharking business. The two brothers quickly shake up the crime world, systematically stripping Macha of his money and power, while Green is left trying to figure out who his mysterious employers are. Ritchie’s take on the crime world...
...Director Gen. Michael Hayden has admitted that in 2005 the CIA destroyed two videotapes of interrogations of al-Qaeda prisoners, including a central figure in 9/11, Abu Zubaydah. Hayden said the tapes were destroyed to protect the identities of the CIA interrogators from members of al-Qaeda and other terrorists who might try to retaliate. He also claims that the tapes were made to safeguard against unlawful treatment of detainees, and that they were only destroyed after it was confirmed that suspects were not being tortured...
...Against the barrage of criticism from the Russians, Pentagon officials have always insisted that the purpose of the missile-defense system is to protect Europe and the U.S. from an Iranian missile attack. "It's not the Russians that we're worried about," Air Force Lieutenant General Henry "Trey" Obering, chief of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, said over breakfast earlier this year. "It is the Iranian missiles that we're worried about." But if the best those missiles could carry is conventional explosives, the case for deploying the missile defense system in the face of the heavy diplomatic...