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...attorneys we swore to uphold each law in the United States whether we agree or not,” said Sareer A. Fazili, a member of the board of directors of MLDEF. “Dershowitz called for collective punishment. I find it amazing—a whole village cannot be considered a co-conspirator. Simple due process is violated when you attempt to punish more people than are allegedly guilty...
United Nations weapons inspectors are back in Baghdad. Their return this week came almost exactly four years after their hasty departure in 1998. That exit had signaled the start of Operation Desert Fox, a four-day, U.S.-led bombing campaign to punish Iraq for failing to comply with UN disarmament resolutions. But Desert Fox was followed by a stalemate - no inspections, and no end to sanctions - until the Security Council two weeks ago adopted Resolution 1441. Now, renewed inspections are not just the route to ending sanctions; they could determine the very future of Saddam Hussein's regime...
Last spring, the BLSA called for Law School Dean Robert C. Clark to punish Professor of Law M. David Rosenberg for telling students that “feminism, Marxism and the blacks have contributed nothing” to tort law. In a separate incident, one student had posted the epithet “nig” to a class website...
...Council resolution. Administration officials announced Monday that Iraq had violated that resolution by firing on coalition planes patrolling the "no-fly" zone over northern Iraq. But, in the same breath, they said the U.S. would not take the matter up at the UN Security Council, where any move to punish Iraqi violations would have to begin. What's going...
Even though North Korea has admitted it possesses nukes, the U.S. seems in no hurry to act against a charter member of President Bush's "axis of evil"--perhaps because any such action could seriously harm American interests in Asia. So why punish poor Iraq? And what is Bush going to do with Pakistan, if it is true that its experts helped North Korea build its nuclear weapons? ASHOK PANDEY Istanbul...