Word: operandi
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...Indeed, putting the screws to seniors who have reasons not to contribute—e.g., “I’m broke” or “I didn’t like Harvard”—is the committee’s official modus operandi, revealed in the “Senior Gift Solicitation Survival Guide,” which a committee member leaked to me shortly before spring break. Since being on the receiving end of a shakedown is undoubtedly the more unpleasant experience demanding survival skills, I will give seniors some ammunition...
...Kerry Have A Better Idea?" about what to do in Iraq [March 15], you posed the million-dollar question and brought attention to something that could ultimately be the Senator's downfall. John Kerry offers criticism instead of answers to real problems. That has been his politically successful modus operandi since Vietnam. The battle for the White House will be long and hard fought. Kerry will need to come up with some specific answers, or Americans will soon see he is a political fraud. HAY HASSANI Beaver, Okla...
...train blasts also differed from the Basque group's traditional modus operandi in important ways: the absence of warning, which ETA usually gives; the deliberate targeting of civilians; and the sheer scale of the operation. Despite the government's professed certainty of ETA's guilt, doubts began to creep in. Then on Thursday evening, Acebes announced that in Alcala de Henares, a town about 19 miles northeast of Madrid where three of the ill-fated trains had originated and which the fourth had passed through, police found an abandoned white Renault Kangoo van containing seven copper detonators and a tape...
...fourth time in four seasons, the Harvard men’s hockey team is heading back to the ECAC semifinals. And after a season of surprises, the Crimson has finally hit the stride that many pundits, myself included, thought would be its modus operandi from...
...Andrew Tan, a terrorism expert at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, argues that the recent violence is most likely a local affair: "This is just the latest in a long line of bombings, assassinations, arms robberies and school burnings that have been going on since the '70s. The modus operandi bears absolutely no hallmarks of groups such as JI or al-Qaeda. If it had been either of them, we would have seen the use of car bombs, ammonium nitrate, attacks on civilians, and the like. If JI had burned those schools, they would have done it with the students...