Word: havoc
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...that they're joked about in public by the protagonists. There is nothing unusual or necessarily counterproductive about an administration making its decision on the basis of input from both hawks and doves. But when such disputation is telegraphed to a wired world in real time, it can wreak havoc with U.S. diplomacy. Does the administration regard China as a "strategic competitor"? Depends who you ask. Does the U.S. condemn Israel's track-and-kill policy towards Palestinians accused of terrorism? Again, depends whether you're listening to Cheney or the State Department. And in instances where Washington wants...
...rekindle the flames of Israeli-Palestinian violence couldn't be doing a better job than the leaders on both sides right now. Israeli forces on Tuesday killed eight Palestinians in a strike on a political office belonging to Hamas, the militant Islamist group whose suicide bombers have wrought havoc in Israel over the past decade. Two of the casualties were senior Hamas political leaders, while reports suggest that two Palestinian children playing outside the building at the time of the attack were also killed. The attack is almost certain to provoke a response from Hamas, inevitably in the form...
...Israeli officials on a European continent where enthusiasm for cross-border human-rights prosecutions has been aroused by the Pinochet and Milosevic indictments. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres maintains that the same principle could be applied against any Palestinian representative who had been involved in terrorist actions and wreak havoc with European efforts to engage with both sides. That argument may resonate with politicians engaged in trying to revive the peace process, but it?s unlikely to deter the lawyers and judges pursuing cases against Israeli leaders. And that has forced Israel's foreign ministry to counsel extreme caution to traveling...
...individual Americans, the tax cuts play havoc with estate planning. Starting next year, when the estate-tax exemption rises to $1 million per person (instead of the current $675,000), rates will decline and taxpayers will be able to leave more to their heirs on a tax-free basis. But the estate tax doesn't disappear entirely until 2010--and a year later, unless Congress acts, the tax is restored to what it is today. This is absurdity of the highest order, making dying in 2010 so attractive for the rich--and dying in 2011 so unappealing--that wags...
...time the heart of the Ivy schedule rolled around, the Harvard lineup was wreaking havoc on opposing pitchers, all the while receiving one solid outing after another from its own staff. After splitting its games with its first four Ivy opponents, the Crimson took three out of four in its series with both Brown and Yale. During the most important stretch of the season, the Crimson was playing its best baseball of the year...