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...Despite the fact that many Palestinians regard the U.S. as almost indistinguishable from Israel, even the radicals of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have scrupulously avoided directly attacking American interests. Some in Hamas have long advocated targeting Americans to punish the U.S. for its support for Israel, and also in solidarity with the wider Islamist cause. But that view has never prevailed in the organization. Tempting the wrath of the superpower has not been considered a prudent political course even among the radical Islamist Palestinians, not least because of the impact this would have in the Arab world. Even many...
...reverberations of the latest scandal to rattle a presidency go far beyond the destruction of one covert officer's career. The charge on the table is that the White House leaked her name as an act of revenge, to punish her husband Joseph Wilson for suggesting in public that the Bush Administration had stretched the evidence about Saddam Hussein's nuclear arsenal in order to justify a new kind of war. With the latest polls showing support for that war waning and anger over its price tag rising, the Wilson flap fueled the perception that the White House cared more...
...also seldom applied because it sets such a high burden of proof. Prosecutors must show that a leaker had access to classified information and knew that its release would unveil someone whose identity the government was trying to conceal. The law provides a mechanism to punish someone who demonstrates a "pattern of activities intended to identify and expose covert agents." The penalties: up to 10 years in jail and a stiff fine...
...turnover was the first of three on the afternoon for Northeastern. Two of those times Harvard was able to punish the Huskies for those mistakes, scoring touchdowns on both the opening fumble and on an interception by junior defensive back Gary Sonkur in the second quarter. The Crimson’s ability to take advantage of Northeastern miscues from the get-go proved to be the foundation of its eventual 28-20 victory...
...right to money—a right which they believe should be protected by the American government through progressive taxation. But progressive taxation—which assumes that some citizens have too much money and others not enough—implies that the government has a right to punish some and reward others solely based on the size of their bank accounts...