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...Sadly for the Acehnese, GAM's principal strategy will probably be to goad the military into committing the kind of brutal excesses it perpetrated in East Timor. "They know that they can't win, so they will keep trying to embarrass Jakarta and the army," says Neta Pane, author of the 2001 book GAM: Its History and Strength. He adds: "I was told by a top GAM official that they were going to use Viet Cong tactics, taking off their uniforms and mixing with the ordinary village people. And, of course, that feeds into the army's suspicions?they...
...nails and screws, the same hammers and power tools to put an embryo together." With this knowledge under our belt, it is irresponsible if not morally reprehensible for us to continue exploiting other species for our selfish purposes. Whether we slaughter animals for food, skin them for clothing or goad them into entertaining us at the circus, we can no longer deny our kinship with them. CHRISTINA J. JOHNSON Long Beach, Calif...
...murder?with the justification that the worst thing to do was somehow the only right thing. "Sooner or later," a canny Vietnamese tells Fowler, "one has to take sides if one is to remain human." It sounds like a hero's rallying cry; in fact, it is a goad for Fowler to collude in assassination as a way of taking revenge on a sexual interloper. Bedfellows make strange politics...
Summers could goad the Faculty to action—at least where his opinion matched prevailing but unacted upon priorities in the Faculty...
...their part, both players have discreetly avoided mentioning the topic; by all accounts, they enjoy a cordial relationship in the locker room, despite the efforts of Argentina's media to goad them into a bloodier rivalry. Bielsa, understandably, is fed up with fielding Batistuta-or-Crespo questions at every press conference. In the run-up to the Cup, he agreed to address the issue only once at any length. Even then, after outlining their relative strengths, the coach concluded, "It's a difficult choice." Thanks for the insight, Marcelo...