Word: operandi
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...season is just three games old, but it seems the Harvard men’s basketball team has already established a modus operandi: fall behind by double digits in the first half and come back to make a game of it before ultimately succumbing...
...team," and that it would take the U.S. a long time to comprehend the movement's new form. That could simply be bravado in the face of damaging blows by its enemies, but analysts have long warned that al-Qaeda is almost certain to have changed its modus operandi under the weight of sustained U.S. assault...
...Qaeda's head of security--are older than Mohammed. Increasingly, the foot soldiers of international terrorism are too young to have taken part in the Afghan war. That doesn't mean that they are any less brutal. They include members of Algerian terror groups whose favored modus operandi in the civil strife of the 1990s was to slit the throat of every person in a village. Nor are they necessarily less tested in combat: some have fought in Bosnia and Chechnya. But the absence of a common, annealing experience in Afghanistan may mean that the younger men lack the long...
...comes to serial killings, a seemingly universal form of evil that flourishes most in societies under stress. The inexperience of Chinese investigators in this field was vividly exposed by a gang of four murderers in the central province of Henan who evaded capture for months in 2000. Their modus operandi was to break into homes using battering rams. Once inside, they killed the inhabitants, frequently castrating male victims with cleavers. They left behind calling cards: cloth masks with eye holes burned out by cigarettes. But the gang's deadly spree was province-wide, and there was insufficient coordination between police...
...through trial and error, Asian governments are now rapidly developing a reasonably good understanding of the terrorist network: its functionaries, assets, linkages and modus operandi. JI is a multinational organization of some 400 trained members operating across territorial borders. Therefore, it's paramount for regional governments to develop a regional task force to fight JI. Whenever JI has been targeted in one place, its operatives and assets have moved to a neighboring country. The nature of the JI organization is such that no one single country can successfully fight and dismantle it. The key to fighting JI lies in common...