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Prescription for Restraint Drugmakers take heat for pushing their products' off-label uses...
...that many of the key leaders of the new government have little reason to expect that they'd be returned to power by the voters, the temptation may arise to delay the election. But the security crisis that could be sparked by such a move might function as a restraint. Instead, the new government may be hoping that if tough measures restore a modicum of security in Iraqis' lives, they may be inclined to vote for the incumbents come next January...
...learned very quickly that the right way to handle things was to speak with restraint,” Summers said in 2001. “Being provocative and interesting wasn’t always good...
...Colonial Tortures. While Muslim torturers applied pain as custom and religion required, colonial torturers showed no such restraint. French police in Algeria argued that the lives of Algerians were so hard that just roughing them up as like criminals were in Paris, the old passage ? tabac, didn?t work. They advocated using water torture and electroshock. These tortures gripped the consciousness of prisoners from the inside. They were interested in creating the most painful experience possible...
...could really go down in history as the person who ended this long tragedy," says Akhmed Zakayev, Maskhadov's representative in London. To do that, Zakayev and others say, Putin should negotiate with Maskhadov - an unlikely scenario given that the Kremlin has branded Maskhadov a terrorist. Despite Putin's restraint, many people believe more violence is inevitable. "No more bloodshed in Chechnya? That's completely ridiculous," says Anne Nivat, author of Chienne de Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya. "It's been going on for 10 years and the death of Kadyrov...