Information is often the decisive discriminator in modern conflict.

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Some refuse to use a bank for religious reasons: many Bangladeshis and Pakistanis do not have accounts because Islamic tenets conflict with modern banking practices.

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Indeed, the Iraq war is the first conflict in modern history where the U.S. having complied with the laws of war by promptly prosecuting American troops believed to have violated those laws did not bring to justice a single one of the hundreds of captured enemy combatants who have killed Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and contractors.

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This month, the English language debut of the European bestseller by French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter, "The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, " is already causing a stir.

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Ms Dudley Edwards brings to life the loyal institutions' mixture of politics, religion and street theatre, which reflects their belief that they have been in the forefront of the conflict of ideology in modern Ireland, and that they still are.

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What Chuck and I and I think many people are curious about is this new, adamant desire on your part not to negotiate, when that seems to conflict with the entire history in the modern era of American Presidents and the debt ceiling, and your own history on the debt ceiling.

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And in the context of that enhanced stability the U.S. would hopefully feel free to be a more effective encourager of the hard steps needed to calm the Arab-Israeli conflict, which is not the only source of but the obvious modern source of our current woes.

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In a fast-moving, interconnected, and open-information world, anticipating and preventing armed conflict or mass atrocities requires tools that are equally as fast, flexible and high-impact as the modern perpetrators of violence.

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