Word: contacting
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...mail is more complicated. Would you want, say, your parents to be able to access your account so they could contact all your far-flung friends - whom you don't have in your address book because you don't have an address book - and tell them that you've passed on? Maybe. Would you want them to be able to read every message you've ever sent? Maybe...
Mullah Omar, the elusive one-eyed founder of the Taliban, has reiterated his call to disrupt the election. Responding to overtures from the government for an election cease-fire, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said via e-mail, "We don't feel it is important to have contact with the slavish and corrupt administration, and we don't need them to contact us." He pledged that the election "will be sabotaged in everywhere possible." On Aug. 16, three rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were fired into Kandahar city, killing a young girl and injuring four children. The following evenings, small-arms...
...greenroom generals of the neoconservative movement cried appeasement, their instinctive reaction to contact with thugs who are not our thugs. But you don't have to be part of the bombs-away brigade to wonder whether we should be giving lying maniacs what they want. It isn't going to stop their lying or their mania, and it makes us look hypocritical...
...Even so, owing to the inhospitable terrain and the altitude, the risks remain high. And with the advance team not expected to have potentially reached him before Saturday, there were no guarantees that Pérez - whom no one has had any contact with since Novallón descended - is still alive...
...policed and concentrated waters in the world?" a bemused Mark Clark of the U.K.'s Maritime and Coastguard Agency told the BBC. "There didn't seem [to be] anything suspicious. It could well be that a crew member had a gun put to his head by a hijacker when contact was made...