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...Counter wrote on this page that, “most racial conflicts are based on ignorance, arrogance and victimization. We must all seek to rise above these failings to bring about tolerance, understanding and racial sensitivity among our fellow men and women in the Harvard community and the world at large...
...Iraqi guys in our prison ... and that's a lot of what led to the abuse." As Karpinski put it: "The mortar attacks changed everything, because they made people angry, like 'we're going to get these guys,' and the prison is filling up with Iraqis - the impetus to seek vengeance went higher...
...Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich has continued the landmark moratorium on carrying out executions imposed in 2000 by his Republican predecessor George Ryan, 11 men have been sent to death row since Ryan cleared it out as he left office in 2003 - and prosecutors in the state still plan to seek the ultimate punishment when they feel it fits the crime...
...None of that, however, is enough to convince prosecutors that the death penalty shouldn't exist at all. "We respect what the jury has done," Devine told reporters after the punishment was announced. Perhaps, but his office has already signaled it would again seek death when Degorski goes on trial for his alleged role in the Brown's restaurant murders...
...diplomacy skills he learned in humanitarian crises to launch a political career. Socialist opponents have called Sarkozy's recruitment of Kouchner a ploy to co-opt and thus weaken the left ahead of June legislative elections. Supporters counter that the pick is proof of Sarkozy's commitment to seek public and political consensus as he modernizes France...