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With the Haditha revelations threatening to fuel antipathy toward U.S. troops, military officials have fanned out across Iraq to rerun all the old drills about rules of engagement for Marine Corps and Army units. Marine Corps rules of engagement require personnel on patrol to follow a four-step procedure to distinguish friend from foe. It's an easy mnemonic: Shout. Show. Shove. Shoot. Marines are trained to stop a suspicious Iraqi at a safe distance of about 400 meters with a shout or a gesture. If that does not work, they should make a show of force with a rifle...
...Bush administration has done a remarkable job in recent weeks of pushing a budget that runs counter to most Americans’ basic values. The Crimson commends the president on his technique, and we offer the following four-step program to future pols hoping to emulate Bush in shielding the wealthy...
...there you have it. The four-step plan to Becoming a Better Person. Take what you think will be useful, and discard the rest. In the meantime, congratulations, keep on swinging those clubs and fighting the good fight. We're all kind of proud of you, in an aw-shucks, punch you in the shoulder, American sporting event kind...
...this: no one, least of all McCain, can tell you what it is. One of the neglected curiosities of this presidential-campaign season is how remarkably substantial and sophisticated it has been. The candidates have unloosed a blizzard of paper. There are fact sheets on child care, four-step plans to save Medicare, backgrounders on Medicaid reform and transportation subsidies and the tax code's deduction for dependent children. Down in Austin, Texas, Bush has assembled an entire shadow government of policy wonks to translate the gaseous cloud of his compassionate conservatism into the hard data of tax tables...
...could be a long fight. The "Guidelines for the Resolution of Faculty Grievances," written in 1983, spell out a four-step procedure for the Faculty member to follow...