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...Suggest the problem lies not in what you said but in how others reacted to it. Warning: This tactic can sometimes compound the original faux pas (see below...
...currentnuclear negotiationsalive and instead returned to Pyongyang today. Talks broke down over the issue of replacing North Korea's gas-graphite reactor with light-water models manufactured by South Korea. The plan offends North Korea's sense of propriety explainsTIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllister: "This may be their typical tactic of going back on an agreement or they may really be drawing a line in the sand." It is not yet clear whether North Korea will abandon its stand-still agreement with the U.S. andresume nuclear weapons development...
...highlighting people literally and within his text, Miller emphasizes the actions of individuals over events or trends in gay and lesbian history. Miller's stress on the person serves several purposes. First and most sublime, this tactic is reader friendly. We love to read personal narratives...
...rational, philosophical arguments heard in a Law School classroom have no force against the fear that dominates public and political thinking on crime. The death penalty is a deceptively easy way to fight back, a tactic of last resort at a time when all our other approaches to crime seem to have failed and violence appears epidemic. It is characteristic of our helplessness, however, that our latest strategy is to answer violence with violence...
...tacos and corn nibblets with the clientele of an elementary-school cafeteria in Alexandria, Virginia�a direct hit in the public relations war over Republican plans to curb the growth of the school-lunch program. Wounded Republicans cried foul, with Congressman John Boehner of Ohio declaring, "There is no tactic too shameless, too low or too outrageous for this White House." The G.O.P. was losing the food fight...