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...made-in-Bangladesh T shirts and sweaters, and many Bangladeshi millionaire textile exporters drive about the streets of Dhaka in new Mercedes-Benz. But for all its achievements, the country has also seemed like a political experiment designed to find out just how much corruption a modern nation can withstand before it ceases to function. "We are hurtling toward disaster," warns Qazi Faruque Ahmed, president of Proshika, a prominent Bangladeshi ngo that runs schools and voter-education programs...
Vineberg, after limiting Harvard to one goal in the first half of the game, could not withstand the Crimson’s rush and gave up the first four goals of the five-tally explosion before being pulled...
...able to withstand their charge, and we were able to make our own,” he said...
...good news is that firing a gun on board would be unlikely to bring down a plane. A commercial aircraft is strong enough to withstand multiple bullet holes, according to a Boeing executive's testimony before Congress last year. Israel, Germany, Russia, Ethiopia and Canada are known to use or have used armed marshals...
Justice officials argue that charging suspects and giving them access to attorneys actually offers the defendants more incentive to cooperate in hopes of bargaining for a lesser sentence. Justice lawyers are also acutely aware that these policies must withstand constitutional scrutiny. "Justice takes a longer view," says a former department official, "and wants cases set up to survive in the Supreme Court...