Word: scoping
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...Israeli hard-liners, Sharon's moves last week were necessary responses to a Palestinian terrorist threat that has grown in scope and audacity--and were no more ruthless than Washington's war against al-Qaeda. Israeli leaders wonder how Washington expects them to do business with Arafat, who only two years ago rejected a Clinton-brokered deal that would have given Palestinians 90% of the occupied territories, and instead launched the latest intifadeh. Both Arabs and Israelis suspected Bush of expediency: the President didn't pay much attention to their war until it impinged...
...recent months a combination of remarkable developments--the military supremacy demonstrated in Afghanistan, Bush's vertiginous approval ratings, continued public support for the war and the relative lack of opposition overseas--has persuaded Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld to broaden the scope of military operations and planning. The idea isn't just to shut down al-Qaeda sanctuaries in places like the Philippines, Yemen and Georgia but also to target and remove dangerous regimes developing weapons of mass destruction that could be used against the U.S. or its allies. For proponents of this new, more assertive foreign policy--premised...
Maybe it was all the surveillance equipment. Normally, if you want to meet someone at a bar, you have to walk over and deliver your best pickup line. But at Remote, you scope out people using video monitors hooked up to a network of cameras scattered around the room. Then you can push a button next to your monitor to let the object of your desire know that you're watching. Still interested? Pick up the phone and start chatting. If you are like me--and like lots of people I saw at Remote the two times I visited...
...headlines might as well have read ANDY RICHTER LOSES MIND. Richter, 35, seemed the definition of a lucky stiff. An actor-comic whose brief pre-Conan resume included doing stage productions of Brady Bunch scripts, he was now being paid to sit on a couch, scope out the guests' jowls for plastic-surgery scars and make wisecracks. "There were some days when I would joke to people, 'If I play my cards right, I won't have to say a word tonight,'" he says...
...this grand scope that makes for the exhibit’s most compelling print. It depicts another street corner, where the camera looks obliquely down a long city street. The image is divided vertically by another grey lamp post; on its right, a pretzel vendor plies his trade while on the left in the foreground a balding, mousy looking man’s face is half-obscured by an enormous brown paper bag. Far in the deep background, yet clearly visible, are the two towers of the World Trade Center. This exhibit was assembled in the wake of Sept...