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...with kidnappers) would suggest they are new to the kidnapping and terrorism business. Terry Anderson, an American reporter who was held hostage by Islamic radicals for seven years in Lebanon, said last week that upon his release in 1991, his captors acknowledged that kidnapping had not been a "useful tactic." Though it had attracted press coverage, Anderson noted, the reports focused on the hostages, not the kidnappers' demands...
...Rollerball, as he says, “[embraces] the violence [that] I used in the original to comment on the activities of multinational corporations.” The previews of this new rendition make the violence the focus, using it as a means to attract moviegoers, the very same tactic used by the “bad guys” in the movie. Perhaps McTiernan intends it this way to make some commentary about contemporary moviegoers as well as large corporations, to point out our own mindless magnetic attraction to action films while we ignore the important issues...
...kidnapping of journalists is a well-known, if uncommon, terrorist tactic. But like all terrorism, kidnapping hurts the cause of those employing it more than it helps. The group holding Pearl should realize that the best way to get out its message—and its grievances with America—is not to capture journalists but to talk to them...
...stir up the voters, but framing the debate around the Enron scandal will. Republicans disagree, arguing the public still perceives Democrats as the big spenders and the GOP as the party of fiscal responsibility. "Enronization" won't have legs, GOP operatives assure me. "It's kind of a cute tactic," says a senior House Republican aide. "But it will be viewed more as a politicization of Enron and as taking advantage of their employees who have been victimized." Perhaps. But Enron has been an unnerving reminder to many of how economic gratification in the present can be risky for financial...
...such a sizable stake to cause it so much potential inconvenience? One theory is that the Springer family wants to reacquire shares in their company that Kirch bought in the late 1980s during a failed takeover attempt, and are exercising the "put" option as an arm-twisting tactic. But Kirch?s shares in Axel Springer are pledged to the banks, as collateral for other loans. For some analysts, the Springer move is just good commercial sense. "If you have a chance to sell assets at far above market price, you do it," says Oliver Rupprecht, an analyst at MM Warburg...