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...sheet goes on to threaten: "Disruptions will be treated seriously and may result in expulsion from the meeting, disciplinary action or arrest by civil authorities." This statement constitutes nothing less than plain totalitarian scare tactics...
...last week, that collecting all these different sales taxes was logistically impossible. But that alleged problem seems to have disappeared. If anything, totally computerized cybercommerce should find it easier to handle such complexities. And the very nonmateriality of cyberspace should make it easier for Internet businesses to leave, or threaten to leave, jurisdictions that treat them badly...
...Then there are other times ? Cuba-missile-crisis moments when events threaten to spin beyond even Uncle Sam?s control. Times when the size of your stick must be matched by the softness of your voice. What Washington seems to have realized in the last week is that the current Iraqi crisis falls decisively into the latter category...
...gilt surface of Misha's seemingly charmed existence begins to corrode. The gangster whom Misha works for starts to threaten his life, and, even worse, Misha is captured by the police and urged to implicate his friends for tearing down a Soviet flag in exchange for a ticket to New York...
...think every organization is a hate group to some extent. They have certain goals and they hate that which threatens those goals," he says. "We do hate that which threatens our race. We do hate the non-whites in general because they threaten...