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According to medical school officials, MFDP received the grant because of its proven success in increasing diversity...
...even in the absence of such controls, diplomacy has proven effective so far in keeping those volatile nations from using their own weapons of mass destruction. Our experience with Saddam has shown that although may be evil, he is neither stupid nor irrational. He does not want to see his country obliterated by a retaliatory attack, and there is no reason to believe that he will support an attack on the U.S. unless backed into a corner. The proponents of an invasion, more than anyone else, threaten to do just that...
According to students in the class, an evacuation of the room in the event of emergency would have proven difficult...
...introducing an element of caprice into what should be a completely fair, standard judicial process. Arbitrary conviction based not on factual guilt, but on a jury’s collective opinion of a law’s fairness, encourages disobedience to the legal code because the certainty that proven guilt results in criminal penalties is weakened. Deterring crime—a major function of the law—can only be accomplished with the universal recognition that criminal action results in punishment. Interrupting that direct link between crime and punishment weakens the deterrent effect of the legal code, thereby increasing...
...dossier notes that all this work violates UN resolutions as well as other treaties, and serves Saddam's proven passion, going back more than 20 years, to acquire a big collection of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs...