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That is the source of many of Africa's problems where the struggles for political power emanate and then spill over onto the informal and the traditional sector, claiming innocent lives.
This seemingly innocent joke, when I heard it as a child in Nigeria, was told about Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa, with the Hausa being Harry.
Yet beyond the tantrums and the frustration and the never-ending hyperactivity was something really unique: a pure and innocent nature, a boy who saw the world without prejudice, a human who had never lied.
He killed 3,000 innocent people, and that filled the Muslim world with horror and revulsion, and what that meant was that his idea of jihad could never become mainstream.
In one project in the United States, information has been gathered on 300 innocent people, 300 defendants who were convicted of crimes they didn't do.
They spent 10, 20, 30 years in prison for these crimes, and now DNA testing has proven that they are actually innocent.
Like the jurors who convicted those innocent people and the jurors who convicted Titus, many people believe that memory works like a recording device.
But probably the worst was I suspected that a woman was innocent of abuse that was being claimed by her grown daughter.
I was suspicious of this story, and so I started to investigate, and eventually found information that convinced me that this mother was innocent.
You know, the Spanish didn't sink the battleship Maine, the Lusitania was not an innocent vessel but was loaded with munitions, the North Vietnamese did not attack the Seventh Fleet, and, of course, Saddam Hussein hated al Qaeda and had nothing to do with it, and yet the administration convinced 45 percent of the people that they were brothers in arms, when he would hang one from the nearest lamppost.
They're about doing surveillance on people they know are innocent.
And the model of 4G is quite simple: Companies cannot afford to be just innocent bystanders in what's happening around in society.
But it took an innocent question from my then-four-year-old daughter to make me appreciate that.
In doing so, we're going to necessarily encounter Americans and innocent foreign citizens who are just going about their business, and so we have procedures in place that shreds that out, that says, when you find that, not if you find it, when you find it, because you're certain to find it, here's how you protect that.
The details have been changed to protect the innocent and sometimes the guilty.
Turns out, they were innocent.
For almost five years I stayed there, and we focused on fighting a war that was unconventional and it was difficult and it was bloody and it often claimed its highest price among innocent people.
This innocent little button is seen on average 22 billion times a day and on over 7.5 million websites.
History has shown that once the police have massive quantities of data, tracking the movements of innocent people, it gets abused, maybe for blackmail, maybe for political advantage, or maybe for simple voyeurism.
Local police departments can be governed by the city councils, which can pass laws requiring the police to dispose of the data about innocent people while allowing the legitimate uses of the technology to go forward.
Some our images were responsible to take some people out of jail, people who were being arrested unfairly under false accusations, and we could prove them innocent.
We tend to think about justice in a pretty narrow way: good and bad, innocent and guilty.
There are innocent and guilty people, there are victims and there are perpetrators.
We use that story to convince ourselves that human trafficking is a bad man doing a bad thing to an innocent girl.
When innocent civilians like Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg, Paul Johnson, were beheaded, those videos were shown during the Iraq War.
What's more pure, innocent and fun as LEGO?
Every innocent bystander will be burned to a crisp.
In events like terrorist attacks and natural disasters, today's media attempts continuous coverage even when no reliable new information is available, sometimes leading to incorrect information or false accusations of innocent people.
Licinia could be accused of incestum, meaning unchastity, at any time and be sacrificed whether she's innocent or guilty.
We took a totally innocent Macintosh apple, removed all the apple cells and DNA and then implanted human cells.
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