Word: precisionism
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For the American military, Haq's demise was a humbling end to a humbling week. Since the beginning of the campaign, the President's men have reminded Americans that this "new" kind of conflict could end up being as protracted as the cold war. And yet for a while the...
It is difficult to imagine that the Evgeny Kissin who performed to a packed audience at Symphony Hall the other night was the same pianist who wowed audiences 17 years ago at the age of 12 with his performances of the Chopin concerti. Child prodigies burn out, fail to live...
It's impossible to wage war from the air without killing civilians. The term "precision-guided" is relative when describing 500lb projectiles dropped from a few thousand feet at small or moving targets. When bombs do go astray, they can just as easily destroy schools and hospitals as tanks and...
This is the real thing. The silent war against terrorism--the one that takes place in police stations, law courts and banks--isn't over and won't be for years. But last week the noisy war, the one marked by percussive blasts that shake mountains, by the rattle of...
Just then Taliban anti-aircraft guns a couple of miles away opened up. They do not seem to be aiming with any precision - most guidance systems have been taken out by the bombing of Kabul. Instead they seem to be groping blindly through the sky, in the general direction of...