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Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.

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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
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Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
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