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...because they terrorize civilians into protecting them. (My guess is that in Iraq today both conditions are met.) So the strong power has to hunt the enemy not on the battlefield but in towns and villages. The risks are twofold: an ambush like that in Mogadishu or a gradual alienation of the local population leading to unbearable political pressure to end a war - which is how the French were forced out of Algeria. In the 1950s, the British perfected antiguerrilla warfare in Malaya, Cyprus and Kenya. But that was before the invention of the video camera and the globalization...
...take on the character of a duel, wits on one side, willpower on the other. Eleanor Cooney's mother was brilliant and glamorous, a successful novelist who once won a beauty contest judged by Frank Sinatra. In Death in Slow Motion (HarperCollins; 251 pages), Cooney chronicles her mother's gradual, grinding dissolution--"death's warm-up act," Cooney calls it--describing the hallucinations and the circular conversations, the fits of rage and neediness that wreck her own life and get her mother kicked out of her nursing home, all in wry, learned prose. Even when Cooney resorts to lies...
Despite all these concerns, attitudes toward medical errors are starting to change. Gallagher says there has been "a gradual loosening" among hospital administrators in charge of managing risk about the disclosure of medical errors. Rather than instructing physicians to be "spin doctors" and keep a cautious tongue, more and more hospitals are letting them be what they are: medical doctors who are human and sometimes make mistakes...
...Avoid "jackrabbit" starts. Sudden acceleration can use up to two times as much gas as a gradual start. And guys, stop revving your engines while you're at it (another unnecessary gas-guzzling habit...
Patel says that gradual changes to the dance are necessary to keep it relevant in today’s society, but says “there are indeed Punjabi cultural values, and we should be careful not to lose sight of those as the dance evolves...