Word: safe
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...looking beyond the immediate factual contest to understand that what is being fought for is a general principle that we have to defend every time it's threatened. As experience shows, if government ever has the power to violate one right for one person, then no right is safe for any other person...
...other major cluster of cases and initiatives are post-9/11 issues. We immediately started what has been our mantra since then: safe and free. We knew this would be seen as an inevitable trade-off; we'd have to choose [between them], and freedoms would be the sacrificial lamb, so to speak, if we were going to have national security and fight terrorism...
...corny, except that, especially now, you get the feeling that the reason he's drawing crowds of 50,000, 75,000, 100,000 - even in purple and red states - is that people want to see what Different might look like. McCain and Palin tried to build fences, looking for safe ground; Obama bulldozed them in search of common ground. "Despite what our opponents may claim, there are no real and fake parts of this country," he said. "We are one nation, all of us proud, all of us patriots. There are patriots who supported this war in Iraq and patriots...
...Exum, a former U.S. Army officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as founder of the influential Abu Muqawama counterinsurgency blog, suggests that the American action in Syria shows that the tactic may simply have been exported. "The precedent has already been established of crossing borders into safe havens. Operational commanders would have to be thinking, If we can do it in Pakistan, why can't we do it in Syria?" he says...
...Allston and segregated students who were of legal drinking age, ten students were ejected for underage drinking, smuggling alcohol, and possessing false identification, according to Ryan Travia, Harvard’s director of alcohol and substance abuse services. The stark contrast between the two tailgates provides evidence that safe drinking is not all about law enforcement. It is unfortunate that the University did not pushback harder against the Boston Police Department for students. According to a Yale Daily News article, Jean Lorisio, counsel to the Boston Board of Licensing, said that Harvard did not have to add more restrictions this...