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...island of Djerba that killed 21, including 11 German tourists; and the May 8 ambush in Karachi that killed 11 French naval engineers. The attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen just days before the broadcast only heightened suspicions. Al-Zawahiri seemed to be describing a campaign to punish Europe - specifically, France and Germany - for supporting the U.S. in its war against al-Qaeda. Several websites with links to al-Qaeda have in recent weeks published new threats aimed at Europe. The messages are routinely picked up and reported in the Arabic media. The London-based Al Hayat daily...
...There’s nothing to rule on,” he said. “We don’t punish people for what they may be thinking of doing...
...tasting Olympic competition in 1976, she was eager for another opportunity. With shock and disbelief, the rowers learned of President Jimmy Carter’s decision to boycott the Games as protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Endeavors to persuade political officials not to punish the athletes proved useless—the closest O’Leary came to the 1980 Olympics was a satellite feed of the races underway without her boat...
...external conditioning of a state'' - a reference to the Dallas proposal's requirement that bishops report any suspicion of sexual abuse to civil authorities. Later, Castrillon said: ''For the Church, the statute of limitations isn't merely a matter of juridical expediency.'' The U.S. bishops have asked to punish guilty priests beyond the canon law limit of 10 years after the victim's 18th birthday. But perhaps most noteworthy was Castrillon's citing, on three different occasions, of the Christian notion of thee '"conversion" of sinners - a sign that the U.S. bishops' underlying approach of zero-tolerance may itself...
Whatever vulnerability the Bullock decision may seem to suggest for the tobacco industry, more than anything, it highlights the dangers inherent in using individual liability lawsuits to punish big tobacco. Not only have suits like Bullock’s been historically ineffective, but they also threaten to weaken support for other more effective types of legal attacks. Collective suits, like class actions or those by the government, exert more financial leverage on tobacco companies, rest on a stronger legal foundation and engender less skepticism from the public...