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Embarrassed by its attempts at propping up tyrants around the world, the CIA is trying a new tactic: helping the beleaguered Muslim-led Bosnian government fight off the ethnic cleansing by the Serbs -- so says a report in the European, a London-based weekly newspaper. Citing European military sources, the paper said CIA personnel are assisting the Bosnian army with tactical training, satellite intelligence and air traffic control. The Pentagon denied the report...
Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican National Committee, called the Social Security tactic "the big lie." Conservative strategist William Kristol snapped that the fear mongering proved that Clinton was "brain dead" and "exactly what he once accused George Bush of being: an out-of-touch, visionless President with only a few questionable foreign policy accomplishments." At a minimum, Clinton's maneuvers will make it harder for either party to propose or accept cuts in spending and entitlements, which they both know is necessary in order to keep the deficit from ballooning again. At worst, the President's tactics were...
Secondly, her tactic of calling on scholars to address the melanin theory is precisely the wrong way of attacking the ideas of Murray and Herrnstein...
Caris A. Halpern, a first year student at the Law School, also carried a sign, but she stood away from the rest of the protesters. "This kind of tactic is not appropriate," she said. "I don't think antagonizing the other side changes anybody's mind...
...film magazine. She couldn't have been further out of the loop -- the double helix, really, that embraced Hollywood movies and Manhattan media -- so she devised a piquant strategy for being heard: she would go to a movie and review the audience. Sometimes she'd review the reviewers, a tactic that led to slams on the New York Times' Bosley Crowther and epochal tussles over the auteur theory with the Village Voice's Andrew Sarris. Not until Kael joined the New Yorker in 1968 did she move to the front line and have to concentrate pretty much on reviewing...