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...conflict. But the burgeoning international conflict over a series of cartoons in a provincial Danish newspaper caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad seems to fit the term with depressing accuracy. It's a case of the hard-fought right to free expression banging up against Muslims' conviction that states ought to punish anyone who insults the Prophet. And so far, all the protagonists appear ready to ride their principles to Armageddon...
...percent of voters will go to the polls to express their support for the Popular Front, Democratic Front and other organizations of the Left; 20 percent of voters will go to the polls to express support for Hamas; 20 percent of voters will go to the polls to punish Fatah, probably by voting for Hamas and independents; 15 percent of voters will turn out to express support for Fatah; and the remaining 40 percent of voters will stay at home, because they have become very pessimistic about Palestinian politics in the face of so much violent chaos in the West...
Reporters like to be the ones asking the questions, but the Valerie Plame leak investigation just hasn't been working that way. In his quest to find out whether White House officials leaked that Plame was a CIA officer as a way to punish her husband Joseph Wilson, a former ambassador and a critic of the White House case for the Iraq war, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has got testimony from a parade of journalists, including Judith Miller of the New York Times, Matthew Cooper of TIME, NBC's Tim Russert and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post...
...idea behind the slayings was not just to punish the perpetrators of Munich but also to disrupt and deter future terrorist acts. For the second goal, one dead P.L.O. operative was as good as another. Klein quotes a senior intelligence source: "Our blood was boiling. When there was information implicating someone, we didn't inspect it with a magnifying glass...
...past, we could only condemn it as being against moral standards and punish it using food sanitation laws." MO WENXIU, vice-chairwoman of the All-China Women's Federation, praising new legislation which bans the practice of serving food on the bodies of scantily clad women...