Word: death
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...Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George Bush -- and enshrined in Executive Order 12333, issued in 1981 and still in effect. Within the Executive Branch, that order has the full force of law. So the U.S. government could not legally kill Saddam Hussein, even if the dictator's death would stave off or shorten a Middle East...
...government official, is a "double-edged weapon. If you kill a foreign leader, your President is endangered" by retaliation. Washington, of course, could ask a third country to take on the task of hitting Saddam, but that strategy does not resolve the deep moral questions of ordering someone's death. It is often argued that an assassination of Adolf Hitler before World War II might have saved tens of millions of lives. If killing Hitler would have been morally justified, how about Idi Amin Dada, under whose regime 300,000 Ugandans died? Or Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has given...
Reports of the death of quality higher education in America are greatly exaggerated, four top educators told an audience of several hundred gathered in Sanders Theater yesterday afternoon...
...thinking the same thing when it offered Melanie R. Thernstrom '87 the largest advance in publishing history for a story that began as the author's senior thesis. $375,000 for one unpublished author's attempt to come to terms with her best friend's disappearance and grisly death, and the trials that followed...
...tale of injustice seem so real to the reader. She accomplishes this by strongly, effectively communicating who Roberta Lee was, what she liked, what she wanted, what pained her. Thernstrom does not allow Lee to become a two-dimensional character doomed to die. The senselessness of her friend's death is never forgotten by the book...