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...when a plot has been foiled and the planners have been captured, the French favor an official code of silence, reasoning that talking too much can give accomplices who may still be out there some scrap of information they need to continue eluding capture. In 2002, for example, officials withheld information discovered in a sweep of Chechen-trained jihadists planning to bomb the Russian embassy in Paris. Investigators used the undivulged leads to chase down additional members of the plot and uncover details of far greater planned violence...
...Does it take brain experiments to discover that we teens are rebellious? My five-year-old brother could have told you that. Furthermore, I don't appreciate how teenagers are categorized as one group. Each of us is unique, just like every adult. Name Withheld Tulsa...
...snaking their way toward distant and exotic lands, its real and lasting impact upon the civilizations of Asia and beyond is even more wondrous than the wildest tales of its traders. Perhaps it was this aspect of the Silk Road on display at the British Library that Marco Polo withheld from his detractors back in Venice...
...Corporation defended its investment policy by outlining ethical standards already in place for evaluating investments in South Africa at the Faculty meeting. A. Michael Spence, an ACSR member, specified that corporations that withheld products and services from the government, the military or the police that implemented apartheid and adopted employment practices that benefited nonwhites in South Africa met Harvard’s standards for investment...
...want her to get her hands on any of the money. She and our son live in a community-property state, so we're afraid that anything he gets will become marital property. Is it possible to leave money in a trust exclusively to him? --Name Withheld, Western...