Word: sanctions
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...Bush, effectively, has committed himself to engaging those arguments. He has done so not because he absolutely has to - most observers think the awesome American armed forces, on their own, could overthrow Saddam - but because seeking allies makes sense. For America to act alone against Iraq, without U.N. sanction, would risk a backlash against American interests around the world. "There's no doubt," says a European diplomat, "that it would be better to do it in company." Thus Bush's speechwriters, before his U.N. appearance, were considering a heavy internationalist tone. ("He'll be Mr. Multilateral," says an aide...
...making this choice is refreshing, the University should have challenged the Air Force’s interpretation of the Solomon Amendment, the federal statute in question. For the last decade, recruiters were allowed to come to campus when invited by student groups, but the law school did not sanction their visits. This mutually beneficial arrangement simultaneously allowed the law school to uphold its non-discrimination policy and permitted recruiters to maintain a presence on campus. Even temporarily allowing military recruiters to visit while the litigation was underway in order to keep the funding would have preferable to capitulating without...
...with a Solomon Amendment sanction hanging over its head, Harvard has blinked and decided to comply with the military rather than risk losing $328 million in annual federal funding. The U.S. government has cracked a financial whip, and Harvard has reflexively jumped...
...from the presence of foreign armies - the U.S. special forces and air power that put the Taliban to flight and keeps more ambitious warlords in their place, and the International Security Assistance Force composed primarily of European troops (currently led by Turkey). And the reluctance of the U.S. to sanction any expansion of the peacekeeping mission beyond the 4,000 ISAF troops currently in the capital has earned Karzai the unkind nickname "Mayor of Kabul," since his writ doesn't run much beyond the city limits. Even there, some U.S. foreign policy experts believe he's in danger both from...
...when they betray their employees and steal from their investors." He noted that the WorldCom executives could face as much as 65 years in prison, which legal experts dismissed as prosecutorial hyperbole. Yet as former federal prosecutor and Los Angeles white-collar defense lawyer Mark Beck notes, "The criminal sanction is so severe that it can motivate someone to play ball and become a government witness in exchange for leniency...