Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practical consequence of this attitude is that the homeless simply do not have the same rights as other citizens. If an individual were harassing me in my residence, I would expect the police to protect me and restrain the offender. But, were I residing on the grates outside of the Holyoke Center, I would expect the police to evict me from my home...
...living with HIV," she said. She said she contracted the virus as the result of a date rape, in which her efforts to protect herself were futile...
...regretted it then, and I would never repeat the same mistake. I think it's irresistible to play to the gallery." Late last week the judge who will retry Erik and Lyle Menendez on charges of murdering their parents barred cameras from those proceedings to "protect the rights of the parties, the dignity of the courts.'' Both those precious commodities, most observers agree, will need some rehabilitation after the Trial of the Century...
...July 12, 1995, Dutch members of the U.N. Protection Force in Srebrenicia coldly watched the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. The U.N. "Protection Force," much like the Holy Roman Empire in the old joke, is neither much of a force nor does it protect anybody except for itself. The Dutch "soldiers" in Srebrenicia watched men, women and children be rounded up, listened to the shots ring out and even watched as Serbs put bullets through the heads of civilians. Cpl. Hans Berkers blithely proclaimed, "I don't feel guilty. It wasn...
Against all odds, however, in the end the American justice system survived. The system is biased toward the defendant to protect American citizens from arbitrary government and police power--take Mark Fuhrman. We are prepared to accept that a guilty man might go free as the price of the caution inherent in our judicial system...