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...between them. In 1996, Hamas unleashed a wave of deadly bombings that killed 60 Israelis in eight days, prompting Arafat to clamp down heavily - some 1,000 Palestinians were arrested and the PA even ousted Hamas from some of its mosques. Later, the organizations appear to have negotiated a modus vivendi. While Hamas won't abandon terrorist actions against Israel, it has periodically agreed, for example, to refrain from sending suicide bombers into Israel for defined periods. While it refuses to accept the PA as an authority, it does accept Arafat's right to represent the Palestinian people internationally...
...every department enjoys the intellectual and social cohesion that seems to bubble from the Barker Center or Paine Hall. In the history and government departments, monthly faculty meetings, hiring seminars and occasional Christmas parties are the modus operandi for social cohesion. “It’s sad we get together so often to do administrative things, but not enough to enjoy our company intellectually,” says history department chair David Blackbourn. And sometimes disagreements among faculty concerning the basic principles that govern the discipline can hinder collaborative efforts...
Harvard's modus operandi this season has been to use the rushing game as a setup for the explosive passing attack. Senior Josh Staph and junior Nick Palazzo, the Crimson's "Thunder and Lightning" backfield duo, have combined to give Harvard the league's leading rush total...
Harvard's modus operandi this season has been to use the rushing game as a setup for the explosive passing attack. Senior Josh Staph and junior Nick Palazzo, the Crimson's "Thunder and Lightning" backfield duo, have combined to give Harvard the league's leading rush total...
...French approach terrorism much like doctors approach the common cold: Rather than wiping it out completely, they look for ways to manage it. This is done through a combination of years of patient intelligence-gathering and police work to ascertain the terrorists' modus operandi, and a set of laws that would (and in France at times did) make civil libertarians' hair stand on end. These were necessary in part because the terrorists were not a single band of extremists, but rather a multi-layered series of cells and networks each contributing in a small way to sophisticated terror operations whose...