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...that they might have the best intentions in mind, but that they overlook crucial problems in their proposal. Instead of focusing on torturing terrorists to make them talk, the United States should fight terrorism by combatting active terrorists, deterring “would-be terrorists,” and punishing those who have already commited terrorists acts, Roth said. Roth said that most useful information about terrorist attacks is gathered from the general public. Legalizing torture, he said, would make people more reluctant to help the police since people who oppose the tactic might be afraid that the information they...
...Last time I read the Bible, there was no requirement to be checking passports." CAROL VEGA, demonstrator from Puerto Rico, at a march in Washington protesting U.S. legislation on illegal immigration that would tighten U.S. borders and punish churches and other groups helping undocumented workers...
...They are not ranked 13th in the country for nothing. They are legit and very skilled. When you play a team like that, you can’t make mistakes, or at least very many of them. Sometimes you can get away with them, but they are going to punish you. We made too many and they punished us.”—Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...
...wages. If immigration stopped, the grapes would still get picked. Agribusiness owners would just have to pay more to get the job done. That said, much of the rhetoric surrounding the immigration debate seems to reflect little more than a mean-spirited desire to punish others for seeking the American dream. When one of our most liberal senators feels the need to brag about fining immigrant families and sending undocumented workers “to the back of the line,” something is wrong. I’m not naive; America must have some restrictions on immigration...
...failure to find and punish Osama Bin Laden leaves a hole in our sense of justice. From the day they indicted Zacarias Moussaoui, the only al-Qaeda conspirator to be tried in the U.S. , prosecutors were determined to start patching that hole with a conviction, and a death sentence. He signed his guilty plea "the 20th hijacker," suggesting that he was meant to be onboard Flight 93, the plane with only four terrorists, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field. Having been ruled eligible for the death penalty, Moussaoui now begins his sentencing phase, which invites us once again...