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Lethal, unprovoked violence was the tactic used by Peruvian drug warriors, aided by the CIA. This is not an efficient way to reduce drug abuse. Roni Bowers was an innocent victim of friendly fire. We will continue to see such "collateral damage" until the U.S. government quits pretending that stopping drug trafficking is worth killing people for. DANNY TERWEY Santa Cruz, Calif...
...shooting brought on quickly faded once I got back out on the course for lap four. Feeling my energy reserves dropping by the minute, I downshifted to "survival pace." Not designed to win races, or increase my self-esteem, or pass anyone or cut my 10k split, this tactic is designed to allow the completion of the race without a major physical breakdown...
...just don't have the materials I need to complete my coursework and my grades will take a hit," she said. "This is a very effective tactic. To students who care a lot about their grades, it can be as crushing as denying food...
...used night-vision videocameras last month to capture, for the first time, the initiation ceremony of Skull and Bones--Yale's 169-year-old secret society whose members include George W. Bush and his father. Just days later and a few blocks away, I was employing far more extreme tactics to infiltrate an even more cloaked society. Porn n' Chicken, which has been around since 1996 and meets once a month to eat Popeyes and watch porn flicks, became Yale's most infamous organization this year when it began shooting a student-acted adult film, The StaXXX, which includes...
...launch of the new and improved iBook. Who else but Jobs could attract a standing-room-only theaterful of journos for something so mundane as a laptop show-and-tell, we mused afterwards? To be fair, most of us were there as a result of that classic Apple tactic: don't show or tell until the very last possible moment...