Word: spare
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...fight organized crime? Spare the civilians, and with less fanfare, infiltrate the terrorist cells and destroy them from the inside. “More effective than military operations,” writes Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, “are likely to be the instruments of police and counterintelligence, including the patient collection of information, the silent penetration of cells, the cutting-off of financial support, the dismantling of the communications used by the networks...
...Like the others, Saida, 27, received no formal education, although her three daughters are enrolled in elementary school. Saida says her eldest daughter Nahid, 12, is getting ready for her betrothal to a 26-year-old farmer and does not have much time to spare for morning instruction. Besides, says Saida, Nahid tells her she learns at school that the Koran teaches her how to be a good wife and mother, instruction that exasperates Saida. "How can the Koran teach you how to live your life, how to take care of your children and your husband?" she asks. So Saida...
When DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. was on medical leave last summer, he found himself with plenty of spare time on his hands—and a casual past-time that turned up a major historical find...
...omen when I bought a DVD player, relegating the old VHS box to a lower shelf?but at least it was still used when I wanted to record E.R. or a football game. Things got worse last week when I unplugged it and moved it to the spare room, a dusty purgatory for appliances on their way out of the loop. Then I set up the gleaming new Panasonic DMR-E20 recordable DVD player, a device designed to kill off the VCR. Instead of using videotape, it burns the images directly on to a special disc, preserving them forever, safe...
...Among some congressional hawks, anxieties run high about the apparent timidity of the American strategy: too few troops, too much dependence on the Northern Alliance, precision bombing that's too precise to scare the Taliban but not precise enough to spare civilians. Behind closed doors-and always out of the President's earshot-some of these complaints have reached the Administration. "War is a miserable business," says Arizona Senator John McCain. "Let's get on with it." Fissures in the international coalition are becoming visible, with Europeans encountering more hostile public opinion. In Britain support for the war has slipped...