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...they will take their case to the Supreme Court. That is something Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government does not welcome. The pilots' lawyer, Michael Sfard, tells TIME that any such case would test the legality of targeted eliminations themselves. The pilots were dismissed because they threatened to disobey orders, but Israeli law permits soldiers to disobey clearly illegal commands. So the court would be forced to decide whether the pilots are right to call the targeted eliminations illegal. "We're fighting to keep Israel moral, democratic and strong," says Captain Assaf, a dissenting reserve F-15 pilot, whose last...
Harvard has identified the need to improve education and treatment for alcohol on campus. Such pervasive problems as dangerous binge drinking and alcohol abuse require a drastic solution. While unconventional, the most effective way to improve attitudes on campus and students’ relationships with alcohol is to openly disobey Massachusetts state...
...only son." Loyalists comprised some 20% of the white American population in the colonies during the war, and their ranks included men and women, rich and poor, immigrants and native-born. But Benjamin chose to reject his mother country, and his son chose to disobey his father. Benjamin never forgave William for his "disloyalty...
...also denied a U.S. newspaper report that claimed papers found in a house used by Saddam's son Qusay allegedly indicate the regime paid him more than $10 million. Galloway is well-accustomed to controversy, having said the best thing British troops in Iraq could do was to disobey "illegal orders" to fight; and, in 1994, for telling Saddam, "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength and your indefatigability." Galloway says he was saluting the Iraqi people. Now the use of funds he raised to help an Iraqi girl suffering from leukemia is also being looked into. - By Helen Gibson...
Describing the University’s resistance to McCarthy-era investigations of its faculty members as “one of its proudest moments,” Summers said that while Harvard will not disobey any government mandates, it will do everything possible to ensure that its scholars’ intellectual liberties are not violated...