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Indeed, they have displayed both tactical skill and a knack for survival in their running battles with U.S. and Iraqi forces since late last year. By and large they have avoided freakish displays of violence like public beheadings of civilians, an amateurish, if deeply disturbing, guerrilla tactic. Instead, Mosul's insurgents have remained shadowy, sticking mostly to the kind of lightning strikes against U.S. and Iraqi security forces that mark a professional guerrilla organization aiming to deal blows and survive to do so again in the future...
...post-partisan problem-solving by mid-autumn. His inexperience ahead of Iowa became his newcomer's agency for change after his victory there. The question of race in South Carolina soon became a chance for the whole country to rise above it. And after a while, Obama's knack for rebounding created a magical aura around his campaign: the more he did it, the more he seemed to have that indefinable ability to win, no matter the odds...
Enzymes are complex proteins that catalyze specific chemical reactions. As an enzymologist by training, Jeremy R. Knowles was one of the world’s greatest experts on these reactions, but even outside the lab, as an administrator, Knowles had a knack for catalyzing change...
...over nuclear policy. "Reagan now suggests that we slowly start investigating whether in the next century technology may offer a solution to our security that does not rest on the prospect of mass and mutual death," noted the Washington Post. "It is the product of Ronald Reagan's peculiar knack for asking an obvious question, one that has moral as well as political dimensions and one that the experts had assumed had been answered, or found unanswerable, or found not worth asking, long...
...secret weapon might be Taylor’s explosive scoring streak that he has managed to extend into the playoffs. He has notched at least one point in the last 12 games to go along with a total of eight goals and six assists. Taylor’s knack for timing has given the forward a reputation as the team’s clutch player, one whom the Crimson can count on to show his best talent in high-pressure situations. “There is definitely a part of me that says that Mike Taylor has refused to allow...