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Still, while coalition forces took pains to safeguard Iraq's oil ministry in Baghdad, they left the nation's cultural heritage wide open. Raid Abdul Ridhar Muhammad, an Iraqi archaeologist, told the New York Times that at the height of the ransacking, he persuaded a U.S. Marine tank crew to come to the museum, where they fired over looters' heads, dispersing several thousand of them...
Supported by the National Rifle Association (NRA), this bill calls for unprecedented industry-wide immunity from lawsuits and threatens Americans’ constitutional right to sue. The gun industry has tried to construe the new legislation as a safeguard against gun-control activists; general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation Lawrence G. Keane argues that the legislation would “prevent frivolous, politically motivated lawsuits...
Although the war to topple Saddam is winding down, the war on terror rumbles on. And while American forces won a rapid victory in Iraq, signs from the home front have been distinctly worrying. On Sept. 12, 2001, the U.S. began a war to safeguard the American way of life. Yet in spite of the military successes of the past year and a half, American values remain under attack—not only by al Qaeda, but also by our own government...
Morgalis’ personal goal is consistency—perhaps as a safeguard to maintaining a prominent place in the rotation...
...false ceiling on the limits of terror. We thought at the time the attack was a warning to be prepared. And so, Cantor Fitzgerald and the other tenants and building managers of the World Trade Center tried to prepare. We took what we thought were exhaustive efforts to safeguard ourselves from any future incidents. Security at ground level and below was tightened. Stairways were rebuilt to make it easier for police and fire fighters to enter. Many businesses, including ours, worked on detailed disaster-recovery plans in the event we lost our buildings. And then life went on. Somewhere...