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...irony is that McCain's camp did this by using the same tactic for which it was denouncing Bush--mass phone calls to Michigan voters. The calls suggested Bush tolerated anti-Catholic bigotry. Even if the tone of the phone calls was not entirely nasty, the campaign was ambitious. A million calls went out from the McCain camp to Michigan voters, not just the "Catholic Voter Alerts" but also comparisons between the two candidates and warnings to expect negative calls from the Bush camp...
Entis and others reply that whatever the risk, it could be lowered to almost zero by raising the fish in closed tanks rather than in storm-exposed pens. Still another tactic under consideration is shocking the fertilized eggs so they create fish that cannot reproduce--a marine equivalent of the self-destructing terminator gene that Monsanto once considered putting in its patented plant seeds...
...worried about getting beaten, join 'em. That seems to be the tactic of tobacco giant Philip Morris, which, after years of successfully fending off government regulation, appears to have seen too many unwelcome smoke signals coming out of Washington. Although most analysts and industry officials were hedging their bets on regulation until the Supreme Court completed its review of the FDA's right to regulate tobacco as a drug, Philip Morris senior vice president Steven Parrish announced Tuesday that the company is willing to negotiate. Parrish told the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal that no matter what...
...CRYING GAME One of four New York City officers on trial for shooting Amadou Diallo (Sean Carroll, right) wept on the witness stand last week. Getting misty is a hit-and-miss tactic, as our history of trial tears shows...
...police commissioner, was a believer in the "broken windows" theory, which says such big crimes as assault and robbery happen where small decay, like litter and graffiti, is tolerated. To ward off shootings and break-ins, Bratton cracked down on things like public urination and subway spray painting, a tactic that explains at least part of the city's crime drop in the 1990s...