Word: sameness
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But killing three individuals is a tough assignment for the military, and the dearth of targets offered by terrorist foes frustrates military planners. Too often, they end up bombing chemical-weapons factories that turn out to be pharmaceutical plants (as in Sudan in 1998) or vainly firing missiles that do...
At the same time, political observers like Denise Maerker, a prominent columnist for the Mexico City daily El Universal, fear that provincial governments in places like Chiapas, where the weapons were found, are using 2010 fears as a pretext for cracking down on social activists. "They're drawing questionable links...
But John Haglelgam, who served as President of FSM from 1987-1991 and is now a history professor at the College of Micronesia, says FSM soldiers are being shortchanged. They cannot become commissioned officers unless they become U.S. citizens, a step many soldiers are hesitant to take because it would...
Reports in Italy claim that the 73-year-old billionaire plans to return to the same cosmetic surgery clinic - believed to be in Switzerland - to remove any lingering signs of the miniature Duomo allegedly hurled at him by Massimo Tartaglia from point-blank range on Dec. 13, slicing open his...
Still, Berlusconi understands the heart of politics as much as its trimmings: the lingering images of his bloodied face might very well provide the kind of sympathy-vote reinforcement to his popularity that no legislative success - or dashing good looks - could match. A poll taken last week by the Milan...