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...militants agitated by the U.S. presence in Iraq, cooperating with the coalition forces is an offense tantamount to treason. In Tikrit, a block from the parade grounds where Saddam often celebrated his birthday, graffiti on a wall in bold Arabic strokes READ ALL THOSE WHO COOPERATE WITH THE AMERICANS WILL BE KILLED. Not far down the road, a former lieutenant in the Fedayeen who met with a TIME reporter in his one-story home reiterates that threat. "Traitors," spits the lieutenant at the mention of those helping the U.S. forces. "They are not Iraqis. They don't love their country...
Trager said that he believes HIPJ’s non-response is tantamount to endorsement of Martillo’s ideas...
...seems to feel it is acceptable to make exceptions to the most serious of rules for those parties that ask for them. This is tantamount to saying that no one can steal—except thieves and pickpockets. Non-discrimination policies are not meant to address organizations which do not discriminate and have no reason to do so; they are necessary precisely to rein in organizations like HRCF—stubborn organizations which insist on discriminating in the face of clear prohibitions against such behavior. By strongly prohibiting already non-discriminatory groups from discriminating and yet opening up a loophole...
...first 2 million years or so of human history, bacterial infections--pneumonia, scarlet fever, syphilis, festering wounds--were often tantamount to a death sentence. But one London morning, humanity got a dramatic reprieve when a Scottish researcher named Alexander Fleming happened to glance at some Petri dishes about to be sterilized for reuse and said, "That's funny." Fleming, who had seen the horrors of infection during World War I, was searching for a safe, powerful antibiotic. So far, he had found only a weak one, called lysozyme, extracted from body fluids. But when he looked at the dishes, Fleming...
...deadlines for coursepack materials or textbook lists. In fact, Harvard Printing and Publishing Services CoursePack Coordinator Geraldine Barney explained that enrollment estimates are only one of many varied reasons for long coursepack production delays—issues such as the readability of submitted materials and communication with professors are tantamount. But most significantly, preregistration will prove useless in counteracting skyrocketing coursepack prices, which are almost entirely a consequence of copyright fees. Likewise at the Coop, as Store Manager Scott Montgomery explained, preregistration will have no effect on prices. Better enrollment estimates could potentially affect whether textbooks sell out too quickly...