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...prevent violence against its own citizens. Israel must protect its population—a Sisyphean task in these gruesome days. Yet its efforts to ensure the safety of Israelis must accord with the principles that are self-evident to any first year law student. A person is innocent until proven guilty. You cannot punish one person for the act of another, let alone punish an entire village for the acts of one individual...
...activists at Harvard. Although it did not involve any physical force, many called the living wage sit-in of last spring “coercive” because it was not intended to persuade the administration to pay its workers a living wage (two years of such attempts had proven that futile) so much as to induce it to. “Coercion,” thus used, simply refers to any form of action used by one party that aims to make all alternatives to a desired outcome less preferable to the other party. Indeed, the purpose?...
Tilghman has devoted much of her career to research this process. The research has proven that imprinting has major implications on species evolution...
...Mart is an exception because it focuses on management instead of technology. It shares just about every piece of market data it collects—we’re talking petabytes here—with its suppliers, which has proven so vital for the consumer products industry that Proctor & Gamble, makers of everything from Charmin to Crisco to Cover Girl, have an office employing more than 200 people in Wal-Mart’s small-town Arkansas headquarters. Its logistics and distribution system is smart enough to know which ethnicities of Barbie sell better in which stores. It pioneered...
Pedersen, who has two children under the age of five, said yesterday that balancing her responsibilities as dean, in addition to her usual scholarly work, with raising a family has proven too much to handle...