Word: safes
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This is by no means to suggest that such illumination is not to be had from examples in different world literatures, nor is it to absolve us of our responsibility as world citizens to study other cultures. But I believe it safe to say that, for Americans of today, the self-conscious, self-critical Western Canon provides a level of intellectual fulfillment that is not to be surpassed, and should not be neglected. Should one leave here without knowing his Shakespeare, his Bible, his Dickens, his Melville, his Emerson, his Twain, his Chaucer, his Dante? Given these criteria for exit...
...three-year-old Hague tribunal is hampered by a shortage of funds and staff. Watertight legal cases are difficult to construct, and no one has uncovered the kind of paperwork that helped convict Nazi offenders at Nuremberg. Most of the suspects remain safe from arrest at home, and NATO's Implementation Force in Bosnia is resolute against mission creep that might ask its soldiers to hunt them down. "Oh, we hope for justice," says Alija Dedajic, a survivor of Sarajevo, "but we do not believe...
...they had nothing on me and wouldn't rely on statements from politicians," he sniffs. But he is certain Belgrade would kill him rather than allow him to testify. "Milosevic is afraid of me," he says. "He knows that I have certain documents that heavily compromise him, kept in safe places abroad. I will publish them if anything happens to me." He mutters that he cannot say what the documents contain: "They are the only thing that is keeping me alive...
Compiled from Playing it Safe--1995 annual HUPD report and H.A.S.T.E publications...
Despite being the victims of crime, Tierney and Chen still believe Cambridge is a relatively safe city...