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...long-building public sentiment to get tough with violent criminals, to kill the killers, seems on the verge of putting the nation's 15 electric chairs, nine gas chambers, several gallows and ad hoc firing squads back to regular work. In addition, five states have a new and peculiarly American technique for killing, lethal anesthesia injections, which could increase public acceptance of executions ... For years, the capital-punishment debate has been sporadic and mainly intramural ... But now an old array of tough questions--practical, legal, moral, even metaphysical--is being examined. Is the death penalty an effective, much less...
...using to improve things are different," says Ghosn during an interview at Renault's Boulogne-Billancourt headquarters on the southwestern edge of Paris. "We're confident this plan will be successful, but if not, we'll assume the consequences. Everyone knows exactly what's at stake." That's a sentiment that is widely shared among European business leaders, as their corporations face ferocious competition not just from established economies like the U.S. and Japan, but from emerging powers such as China and India. In the auto industry in particular - still the bellwether for a globally successful manufacturing sector in many...
...conspicuously absent: a civil war of words. Wordplay aside, such a campaign would be targeted not at the usual suspects of America and the West, but at the internal evil that has given Islam such a bad name. Once again, Jihad Momani, addressing his Muslim brothers, articulates this sentiment in the clearest fashion: “Who harms Islam more? This European guy who paints Muhammad or the real Muslim guy who cuts a hostage’s head off and says, ‘Allah u akbar?’ Who insults our religion, this guy or the European...
Columbia University named Bollinger as its president in October of that same year. And the controversy on Columbia’s campus surrounding allegations of anti-Semitic sentiment in the university’s Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures department could have dimmed any Harvard hopes that Bollinger may still harbor...
...became just one entry in a long catalogue of Western sins that made China an innocent victim of foreign aggression and exploitation. In Britain and the U.S. too, an upsurge of moral, largely missionary, revulsion at China’s opium miseries came together with growing anti-imperialist sentiment. Yet the great international anti-opium conferences and arrangements of 1880-1913 were entirely futile. Well before 1900, the Chinese were growing at home many times more opium than the British, or anyone else, could import, and they kept on doing it. Professor Harry Gelber is a Visiting Scholar...