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...conceivable motive for...[Smiley] to intentionally conceal the theft of other maps at this point.” But Goldman said Smiley still has “an incentive not to come forward now. [If he revealed additional thefts] the terms of the plea agreement would be null and void and Smiley would face stiffer sentencing guidelines.” The Harvard College Libraries—along with the other affected libraries—are seeking punishment to the fullest extent of the law, Brainard said. Goldman and the British Library have gone further—they have advocated...
...serious objection to your claim that Israeli setters built their illegal settlements on wasteland. They have built them on well-nurtured soil on which my ancestors shed sweat and blood. And the fact that these settlers have labored relentlessly to maintain this stolen property does not render null and void the fact that these territories were forcefully acquired and populated in defiance of explicit and unambiguous provisions of international and humanitarian law. Peace between us Palestinians and our Israeli neighbors can only be achieved when mutual trust prevails, and that will only be realized when legitimate Palestinian and Israeli grievances...
...make a wedge issue work, it helps to have a crisis--or, as the gay-marriage issue showed, to manufacture one. As private research continues even without federal funds and Governors like California's Arnold Schwarzenegger rush in to fill the void with state money, voters end up concluding that Bush's veto is not likely to prevent science from going forward in some way. Unlike issues like abortion and gay marriage, the stem-cell debate is seen by few people as one of moral absolutes. While Americans overwhelmingly disagree with Bush's action, they give him credit for having...
...Wallis’ sermon from the night before—that we were the foundation for a new social movement that would remind politicians that poverty is a manifestation of a nation’s moral lapse, of its unwillingness to help the poor. This movement would fill a void in the soul of the nation, and provide a home for people who believe that morality should guide policy, but that a “culture of life” extends beyond protecting the unborn and that family values means encouraging marriage, not preventing...
...body would have information independently of the Corporation, but there’s never that kind of accountability,” Gomes says. “I think most of us who have to write for visiting committees feel as if we’re writing into a void...