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...authoritarianism worries human-rights groups, the commercial world has no such qualms. American Chris Lundh is CEO of RwandaTel, the country's Internet and mobile-phone giant, and has worked in telecoms across Africa. Asked about Kagame's human-rights record, he replies: "So what? In Congo, they'd shoot them." Kagame and business, he says, prize the same thing: results. "There is a focus here. People whinge about the lack of political opposition. But if you look at what happened in 1994, lack of opposition looks pretty small fare." Dabbs Cavin, 42, a lawyer and commercial banker, moved with...
...also quoted Murphy as saying: “We’ve gone to the trouble of collecting the intellectual property of the book lists [from the professors]... [a]nd we wanted to make sure that we’re not going to—my words—shoot ourselves in the foot in terms of how we give that information out. That’s a valuable asset...
...even at a stratospheric price, the V-22 is going into combat shorthanded. As a result of decisions the Marine Corps made over the past decade, the aircraft lacks a heavy-duty, forward-mounted machine gun to lay down suppressing fire against forces that will surely try to shoot it down. And if the plane's two engines are disabled by enemy fire or mechanical trouble while it's hovering, the V-22 lacks a helicopter's ability to coast roughly to the ground - something that often saved lives in Vietnam. In 2002 the Marines abandoned the requirement that...
...great, elegiac Westerns. It was horse opera rendered as grand opera, with Morricone's fullest, most voluptuous score. Corbucci's vision was much bleaker. For once the good guy doesn't win. Hero and heroine are both killed, and the rival bad guys are left to shoot it out in a final saloon carnage...
...convoy, they made a second wrong assumption: a suicide bomber was behind the wheel. Things happened fast, and the Blackwater team fired on the car, killing a child and two adults. We can second-guess Blackwater all we want, but the ground truth is Iraq is a shoot first and ask questions later...