Word: coverting
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...damned well better be ready for war, because we've been at war since September 2001. This war is different from any we have fought before, and the politically correct will never like it. It has overt and covert operations, some of which will be pre-emptive. Soldiers will die, some by enemy fire and some by friendly fire. Innocent civilians will be killed. This war will be long, and we had better keep the resolve that we will need to see it through. It's not nice, but it is necessary. DAVID C. MORTENSEN Pocatello, Idaho...
...wiretap Pakistani telephones and organize raids on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts. The Islamic hard-liners even fret that cameras at the Karachi airport are feeding images into CIA computers. What riles them most is that Musharraf has buckled to U.S. pressure and scaled down Pakistan's covert support of Muslim militants fighting in Indian-held Kashmir. "This is against our sovereignty," says the MMA's Ahmed...
...entrance and Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” blares from the stereo. Captain Morgan flows freely and the conversation turns to the oversized Head of the Charles poster on the wall and the semi-illegal methods through which it was acquired. Discussion of covert nocturnal pole-climbing ensues, which, as the offending party explains, “is very easy when you are lanky and drunk.” Suddenly, a boy bursts in wearing nothing but Ralph Lauren briefs. “I lost my clothes and my cell phone...
...this regular scholastic observation of moments of silence that is partially responsible for the profanation of memorial moments of silence. If you fashion spitballs or play covert games of solitaire tic-tac-toe during most moments of silence, it is difficult to muster deeply-felt feelings for exceptional ones. You are desensitized to whatever symbolic weight a moment of silence might once have...
...Tobias Schalken, half of the experimental "Eiland" duo, contributes a story whose images complement each other when holding the page up to a bright light. The overt theme of "Rosetta" may a bit vague - the word appears in several entries, particularly as the name of a diner - but the covert theme, outstanding comix, can't be missed...