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...oppose the death penalty must be ready to face head-on the grief and anger of the families of the victims. Those who are for it must be ready knowingly to kill a fellow human being" as though they were the one on the firing squad pulling the trigger...
...have gained intelligence from a double agent who infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue that the group was planning acts of sabotage. In the full context of this situation, it is easy to see why Castro, who takes personal responsibility for the attack, would be a little quick on the trigger...
This issue is "too complicated to be handled at the administrative level, but the claimants are certainly free to pursue the matter in court," Kaufman said. "The purpose of the denial letter was to trigger the process to take the matter to court...
...clear." Preval, says a Port-au-Prince political commentator, "will be lucky if he gets three months" to enact that vision before people revolt. Strikes, protests, barricaded roads could easily degenerate into violence and upheaval--a "crisis of ungovernability," as former President Leslie Manigat puts it--and that could trigger another boat exodus...
Marcy and Butler's announcement could change the course of astronomy. "This is extraordinarily important," says astronomer Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "This is the first glimmering we have that normal solar systems exist beyond our own." It is sure to trigger a rush to find new planets. Indeed, half a dozen teams around the world are already looking. And in an address to the astronomers a few hours after Marcy's talk, NASA administrator Daniel Goldin announced a new program whose goal, he says, will be "not only detecting but taking direct images of Earthlike worlds...