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...business and government organizations, taking care of your own is basic protocol. Following every merger - even a distressed one, and Merrill was clearly the weaker entity - bosses on both sides start building the trench lines to protect as many of their people as possible. Are sacrifices made? Sure, that's expected, but you don't give up your guys easily. (See the worst business deals...
...weapons. We're bringing in the ordinary stuff that keeps Gaza alive. If the Israelis opened the border crossings, we wouldn't have to be doing this," says Mohammed, a gap-toothed man in his 40s whose cap is emblazoned with a Koranic verse that he hopes will protect him from being buried alive when the Israeli fighter-bombers reappear in the skies over Gaza...
Israel likes to believe that its Defense Force is the world's most "moral" army, and it insisted throughout the recent Gaza war that great care was always taken to avoid inflicting civilian casualties. It may surprise and rile many Israelis, then, that their government is trying to protect its citizens from war crimes charges that could be filed in foreign courts over the conduct of hostilities in Gaza. Fearful that Israeli commanders could be targeted for arrest while traveling abroad as private citizens on business or vacation, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Tuesday ordered the Israeli media to refrain...
...effectiveness of 40 different technologies used to protect minors online, including filtering and auditing and text analysis, were also assessed by the task force. And while hopeful about future innovations, the task force emphasized not relying on technology alone to prevent these risks. They found that many of the technologies were “point solutions rather than broad attempts” to preventing these dangers...
...President announced another clean break with the Bush Administration, on foreign policy. Summoning the wisdom of "earlier generations," he said, "They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please." Take that, Dick Cheney - who exited the scene in a wheelchair, looking grim, as if he were about to foreclose on someone. Obama piled on several foreign policy zingers when he denounced the "false ... choice between our safety and our ideals" - a reference to Bush's harsh treatment of prisoners - and in his message to the world: "We are ready...