Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leader, Barak's biggest liability may be his lack of empathy--that Clintonesque ability to connect with others. He can be famously detached, recalls Doron Cohen, his brother-in-law, who served under Barak in the Sayeret Matkal. The first time he sent Cohen off on a cross-border raid, Barak accompanied the infiltrators to the frontier, but, says Cohen, "Ehud wouldn't tell me one personal word. I understood this was business. There was no room for gestures." Yet when the forces returned safely, Barak rushed over to Cohen to hug him. "He's so targeted, so cool," says...
...Maybe I thought it was a good idea.) A disastrous e-mail that I sent, by accident, to exactly the wrong person. Programs from each year's Freshman Musical, my invention. Rejections from every competitive organization on campus. Letters applying for jobs I never even wanted. Old cans of Raid, left over from when I and my roommates declared nuclear war on the roaches in our room. Sleeping pills from two semesters' worth of random insomnia. Bottles of bubble solution and glow-in-the-dark paint. (If you don't have these yet, you're really missing out.) But most...
...Friday night an allied warplane--most likely a U.S. B-2--dropped a load of bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing four and infuriating the Chinese. That bombing bungle followed a week of occasional misses and offered a reminder that in the heat of a massive bombing raid, even a 99.93% hit rate against military targets can still wreak tremendous civilian damage...
...then the investigation of Lee had devolved into a bureaucratic Byzantium. The Albuquerque agents filed their warrant request with the Justice Department in July 1997. Officials there concluded that the FBI did not have sufficient proof that Lee posed a national-security threat grave enough to merit a raid on his computer. Exasperated FBI authorities appealed to Attorney General Janet Reno, but she wouldn't budge. Attempts to get more goods on Lee turned up nothing. Says a veteran counterespionage investigator of China's spy network: "They're everywhere, but it's hard to catch them doing anything...
Wilson himself was part of such a "raid" whenhe came to Harvard. During that same time, Gatesalso successfully lured Professor of Philosophy K.Anthony Appiah, Fletcher University ProfessorCornel West '74, Professor of Sociology and ofAfro-American Studies Lawrence D. Bobo, andvisiting lecturer on Afro-American Studies JamaicaKincaid to the University...