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...with Blair--not the Blair of today, but the Blair of 1999. Back then, the British leader was supporting the U.S. in a different war, in Kosovo. Remember Kosovo? It was fought without U.N. approval against a dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, who, while slaughtering his own people, posed no direct threat to the U.S. Had NATO's campaign failed, it would have been Clinton and Blair who looked like reckless ideologues. But it worked. And Blair made it the centerpiece of a new foreign policy creed, which he called the "doctrine of international community...
...watch lists. But several have already proved their deadly capabilities: the British government classified the four July 2005 London train bombers as clean-skins. Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, was a clean-skin as well. Following the London transit attacks, Britain began to crack down on the threat by doubling its élite police antiterrorist squad and stepping up efforts to recruit spies within Muslim communities...
Indeed, the Committee recommends the threat of personal responsibility for social club leaders—the policy in place at Yale and Dartmouth—as a “useful deterrent to dangerous and sometimes illegal behaviour,” even as it confesses that, “the students with whom it consulted disagree with this recommendation...
...later, on a well fielded line drive and a strike out, Roberts walked another batter to put runners at first and second. However, the fifth Holy Cross hitter of the inning put the ball down the third base line and was easily thrown out at first to end the threat. The two walks in the fourth were the only blemishes on an otherwise near perfect outing for Roberts who recorded a one-hit, shutout, performance. “They did not hit her too hard today,” Allard said. “We made a lot of good...
...even if the soldiers had seen the waving arm and cell phone through the blinding headlights, they could not have known that the driver was friendly. Cell phones, he says, are often used as detonating devices for car bombs; the driver's signal would have been perceived as a threat. He says that cell phones were immediately confiscated from stopped cars for this reason. After she returned to Italy, Sgrena told the press that she was not allowed to use her cell phone, which she claims was evidence that the military tried to cover up the fact that they attempted...