Word: comfortes
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...treated former captives. "If you can't control it, you lose the coordinates of the self." This, of course, is the plan. It sets the stage for a good cop--bad cop strategy in which the captive comes to depend on the supposed ally as the sole means of comfort and is thus likely to offer information to please...
Some professors said that they took comfort in the fact that the plan for the institute seemed to have been scaled down from the proposal they had initially heard. Several said that the original proposal was in the $750 million range...
...heads - both the soldiers obsessed with imagery from "Full Metal Jacket" and "Apocalypse Now," and a media corps looking for simple analogies to describe complex problems. But what they do reveal is a growing anxiety over the long-term nature of the Iraq occupation. Nor is there much comfort in the observation by those coalition-of-the-willing Spanish, who are finally sending 1,100 troops to join the fray in Iraq, that the situation there is not at all like Vietnam. No, says the daily El-Mundo, it's more like the Palestinian intifada...
...special-forces troops in Iraq had seen it all before--12 years ago, to be exact. Long before the war with Iraq began, officials at the U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., combed service records for names of commandos who had seen action in 1991's Operation Provide Comfort, which gave food and shelter to Kurdish refugees after Saddam crushed their rebellion. The goal: to lure these American soldiers out of private life and back into action. "We wanted them for the places they'd been and the people they knew," said a top officer. Army rules prohibit...
...romance or a sedate getaway, the best choice is probably the Taj Exotica, tel: (91-832) 277 1234. This hotel is charmingly designed in authentic Goan style and efficiently serviced, with the rooms offering plenty of privacy and comfort. It's also perched at the edge of the sea, with a wide range of sports activities, and in ambiance bears more resemblance to a posh country club than a hotel...