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...addition to lack of counseling and Advanced Placement courses, students in poorer communities are also far less likely to have access to exam-preparation courses that teach strategies for doing well on standardized tests, or to be able to hire private college counselors, a tactic increasingly resorted to by anxious students...
...have been easy for Bernhard Goetz, left--dubbed the "subway gunman" by New York City tabloids--to hear himself referred to in a courtroom as "a nerd, a geek, a peckerwood and a cracker." The author of these epithets: Goetz's own lawyer, Darnay Hoffman, right, pursuing the tactic of insulting one's client before the opposition can. It didn't work: a jury found Goetz liable to the tune of $43 million in the civil lawsuit growing out of his gunning down of four menacing panhandlers in 1984. Other examples of "Don't say that about my client...
Crane is the object of a tactic that is proving increasingly effective--going after local targets just below the national media radar. Even while the Christian right's media-savvy national leaders are downplaying antigay initiatives, its local soldiers are working to raise the issue that America's young people are being exposed to gay alternatives too early in life. By pitching the attack closer to home, where parental fears are more easily aroused, conservatives are extending their influence while escaping the tough scrutiny that has greeted their more visible campaign in statehouses to ban same-sex marriages...
Over the past year, the self-styled Freemen churned out more than $1.8 million in phony money orders and other financial instruments, according to federal indictments. They used those to defraud banks, credit-card companies and mail-order businesses. A favorite tactic was to use liens filed against the property of government officials and others, then issue worthless money orders or checks using that property as collateral. Some unwary businesses, car dealerships, even the irs, have accepted them. Meanwhile, the Freemen have allegedly harassed local officials and brazenly taught weekend seminars in fraud and larceny to hundreds...
...sense is that people at University Hall are using every tactic of threat and intimidation to keep students from choosing greater autonomy, so they fire people or they make threats about whether the University would still support public service in the same way if Phillips Brooks House Association was independent," he said...