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Richard Sandor's vast collection of vintage photographs reflects his fascination with divergent thinkers, from Albert Einstein to Fidel Castro to Man Ray. Yet his tactic for saving the earth couldn't be more Establishment. He wants to entrust the task to financial markets...
Destroying the homes of Palestinian assailants is Israel's latest contribution to the escalating battle between the two sides over who can hurt whom more. Actually, it's an old technique, from the time of the previous Palestinian intifadeh, or uprising, from 1987 to 1993. Israel abandoned the tactic, decried by human-rights groups because it punishes those not involved in violence, after signing the Oslo accords. The return of house demolitions is the latest measure of how, in the 22 months since the Palestinians launched their new intifadeh, the two societies have set back time, erasing the progress...
...causing their website's disruption. "Do not be deceived by the blasphemous behavior of the crusaders," warned a statement on a hastily established website last week. An American intelligence official declined to comment on whether the U.S. had hacked al-Neda. But whoever did was borrowing an al-Qaeda tactic: find a direct channel to the sympathizers...
...company stock--a practice he now wants to ban. In 1989 Harken concealed losses by selling most of a subsidiary to an off-the-books entity controlled by company insiders. Bush was on the audit committee, which, at least in theory, approved the deal. It's the same tactic used by Enron--on a massive, more pernicious scale--before it imploded...
After a while, Yoder all but gave up on the courts--and then got creative. A decade earlier, he had been transferred out of Chester to federal custody to be prosecuted for sending threatening mail. So now he tried the same tactic. He says the letters weren't sincere and were intended only to get him sent to federal prison. That strategy may seem silly--or nuts--but a Chester psychologist wrote a report in 1993, before most of the letters were sent, that clearly outlined what Yoder expected from the letters and the consequent trip to federal prison...