Word: handing
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...goes something very nearly (I try not to scribble in front of people here; it makes them a little nervous, especially in the middle of a class on media relations) like this: "The story that needs to be written about this is that as soldiers who raised our right hand and took the oath we have an obligation to obey.... The issue is that we need to have confidence in the leadership, that they've done their homework and made the right decision and won't hang us out to dry if something goes wrong. But we don't really...
...believes that an agreement on personhood is not even necessary. It believes if there is any doubt about whether or not the fetus is a human person, then abortion should not be legal, because one cannot risk being wrong when human lives are at stake. SFC, on the other hand, states that a woman should never be forced into a pregnancy against her will, or be made to seek dangerous back-alley abortions. It relies on the important legal concepts of privacy, equal protection and consent to place abortion in the realm of every woman's right to choose...
With images of hand-painted coffin advertisements and school children singing in a chorus about losing parents to AIDS, the video presented a series of statistics on the extent to which AIDS has ravaged the African continent...
...never say "never" in Israeli politics, which may explain Ehud Barak's apparent flip-flopping on handing over villages near Jerusalem to the Palestinians. The Israeli prime minister on Tuesday backed away from a plan to hand over the ethnically Palestinian Jerusalem suburb of Anata next week, under pressure from his right-wing opposition and even some key elements of his own coalition. But while the retreat had Palestinians and media commentators questioning whether Barak is able to deliver Israeli acceptance of final peace treaties with the Palestinians and with Syria, the maneuver may have been part of a plan...
While domestic politics may appear to have restrained Barak from handing over either Abu Dis or Anata in the interim stage, the very mooting of the idea may have helped prepare the way for their transfer to the Palestinian Authority in a final treaty. "Barak has made clear he plans to eventually hand over both neighborhoods, and now it's only a matter of time," says Klein. "Next time it comes up for discussion, it's unlikely to make the headlines in the same way and the opposition is unlikely to muster the same support for blocking it. The public...