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...judicious tactic considering the toughness of Beijing's cultural czars. (And Jiang, 39, shows no stomach for moving his talents outside of his homeland.) But the logic breaks down if you know the Jiang almost everyone in China knows: one of the toughest, most obstinate characters around, both onscreen and off. Is Director Jiang Wen really retired...
...Harvard’s “obvious” obligation to pay higher wages, it noted the equally obvious fact that those with the leisure to engage in such philosophical musings must hesitate before demanding justifications from those who do not. The response reminded me of a tactic once described by Isaiah Berlin, of resolving the difficult questions of life by “so treating the questioner that problems which appeared at once so overwhelmingly important and utterly insoluble vanish from the questioner’s consciousness like evil dreams and trouble him no more...
...filing of this motion is a usual defense attorney tactic any time there is a confession made,” Catalano said last month. “We are confident that the evidence will speak for itself opposed to the defense attorney’s tactic...
...British subscribers to the TiVo DVR service took it as a personal insult when the BBC comedy Dossa and Joe was automatically recorded on their machines in a format they could not delete. The BBC, which struck a deal with TiVo to promote Dossa and Joe, admits the aggressive tactic was a bad idea. But it raises the bigger question of who dictates what DVR owners watch. One in five never watch commercials, which scares television executives who depend on advertising revenue. A group of media majors like AOL Time Warner have even sued to stop DVRS from automatically skipping...
Because racial-profiling claims are difficult to prove in court, civil rights activists urge parents to bypass the legal system and confront school officials directly. In some cities, the N.A.A.C.P. accompanies families to expulsion hearings. Another tactic popular among advocates is to gather a district's discipline statistics--which are collected by the government and can be obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request--and prepare self-published reports for local news broadcasts. After enough badgering, some districts have begun to bend their discipline codes. Last fall Chicago public-schools chief Arne Duncan directed principals to stop handing...