Word: tacks
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...part of the country, captured two of the birds--which take their name from the local Bugun tribe--in May, but the find had to be vetted by the scientific community before it became official. Since the species is so rare, Athreya did not want to take the usual tack: killing a specimen, stuffing it, then shipping it off to a museum. Instead, he took feathers and pictures and recorded the birds' song before releasing them, so that scientists could verify his claim. For Athreya, it was a triumph. He first saw the species in 1995 but didn't spot...
Democrats, of course, agree. The G.O.P. has scourged the opposition as the party of cut and run, but that tack is of limited value when the Democratic leadership has reined in calls by members for a prompt withdrawal from Iraq and when most Americans no longer support the war. In any case, the Democrats are now playing offense on Iraq. The home page of Diane Farrell, a Democrat seeking to unseat Representative Christopher Shays in Connecticut, features a calculator for the cost of the war in Iraq that updates second by second--$313 billion and counting. In a crucial seat...
...House candidates planned a similar tack, and the National Republican Congressional Committee issued a memo this morning playing up the potential distraction of Lieberman's independent candidacy in a state where three GOP incumbents ? Reps. Rob Simmons, Chris Shays and Nancy Johnson ?are perennially endangered. The memo said Connecticut Democrats "will now continue to train their attention on vanquishing Senator Lieberman when their three House candidates need all the help...
Indirect pressure is another tack to try, but in this case, neither Iran, which supplies Hizballah's weapons, nor Syria, which transships them into Lebanon, is very susceptible to urging. Iran already faces the possibility of sanctions from the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program and may well be grateful to Hizballah for diverting the attention of world powers through this major conflagration. Syria is close to being Washington's least favorite country: the U.S. has withdrawn its ambassador and permitted only low-level contacts since a U.N. report last year implicated top Syrian officials in the 2005 assassination...
...this month, 36% of registered Democratic voters said they would support her in a presidential campaign, compared to 11% for Kerry. (John Edwards got 12% and Al Gore 16%.) What's more, national polls show her problem with most voters is that they find her too liberal, so her tack on Iraq may be politically shrewd. Meanwhile, even though the liberal crowd clearly preferred Kerry's speech to Clinton's, they were hardly excited about seeing the Massachusetts Senator run again. Even as an anti-war candidate, he may be found wanting. Edwards, his former running mate, declared that...