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...before the meeting and we can't do it in six months time," Clinton said. "I wish I had it in my power to reach into the hearts of those young men who have bought some apocalyptic version of Islam and politics that together causes them to strap their bodies with bombs and blow themselves to smithereens and kill innocent children. I wish I could do that." Clinton did say there are ways to minimize risks. He said the United States would immediately begin providing Israel with additional anti-terrorism equipment and training, and join with Peres to develop...
...should be obvious, it would be virtually impossible to copy the hand-worked craftsmanship of the Great Hall today: and, even if one could, it would be but a copy of the greater original. Apart from requiring millions of dollars for quarter-sawn white American oak, plaster strap-work, limestone and bronze, it is not possible to replicate the character of such period-work today--expert craftsmen are hard to find at best, non-existent at worst and they are bound and informed by the characteristics of their own age, not of ages previous...
...week before, and by the end I was ready to rush wild-eyed into the streets, gibbering out the precepts of supply-side until they came with straitjackets to take me away. Governments that wish to flout basic human rights without risking their most-favored-nation trading status could strap dissidents into chairs and make them listen to this stuff...
They will never execute O.J. Simpson. They will never strap O.J. down in the gas chamber, seal the door, and drop the poison pellets (California's chosen method). Even putting it in these terms proves the point. It is unimaginable. We will not allow it -- "we" being the same American citizenry that supports capital punishment by a wide margin in every poll, the same citizenry to which politicians promise ever more executions for an ever greater variety of crimes...
...courts supported three Arkansas State Penitentiary prisoners who claimed that the use of leather strap was "cruel and unusual." The decision in the case of Jackson vs. Bishop states that "the strap's use, irrespective of any precautionary conditions which may be imposed, offends contemporary concepts of decency and human dignity, and precepts of civilization which we profess to possess. "Nevertheless, six of the nine points listed to explain this finding concerned the difficulties of regulating corporal punishment...