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...seemed as though the Social Studies department was emphasizing the need for new concentrators to come in with a set focus in mind. To those who are weighing their options between the social sciences, this pressure feels, in part, to be a type of scare tactic used to intimidate the many potential concentrators who are not yet set in a specific track...
...months of the surge. So far in June, about 20 bodies have appeared on the streets of Baghdad a day; at that rate, at least 600 murder victims will surface in Baghdad by the end of June. Meanwhile, the number of bombings targeting civilians in Baghdad, the chief tactic of Sunni extremists out to kill masses of Shi'ites, has remained roughly the same since the surge began, at about 50 per month...
Deacon said in an interview last week that colleges referred to this tactic as the “Robin Hood approach”—taking more from the rich to give to the poor...
...Protests surrounding the annual G-8 meeting can be unruly, so the Germans want pre-emptive order. But they may have gone overboard with a $17 million fence, above, being built around Heiligendamm and a plan to track activists by using scent samples. The latter was, inconveniently, a favored tactic of the feared East German Stasi secret police...
...Romney campaign has been crisply disdainful of the observation. Spokesman Kevin Madden called it "a tactic borne of desperation," and "obviously the result of an inability to deal with the current political fallout they are experiencing on this issue...