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This year is not shaping up any better. In Corpus Christi, Texas, last month, arsonists burned from one of the city's abortion clinics, along with four neighboring businesses in the same building. A new tactic is to spray the interior of clinics with butyric acid, a chemical that ruins carpets and furnishings and leaves behind a revolting stench. During one night last week, five San Diego clinics were made a stinking mess. "It smells like rancid meat and a sewer together. It's awful," says Ashley Phillips, whose WomanCare Clinic was one of those attacked...
...Captain Daniel Alvarez--who used every delay tactic in the book whenever the Crimson had any momentum,--got caught with his serve down when he tossed the ball and let it drop on consecutive points...
Genzyme's marketing tactics have also raised eyebrows. Company salesmen use the unusual tactic of contacting Gaucher's victims and their doctors directly, enticing them with videos and publications suggesting that a healthy, pain- free life is at last at hand...
...racial equality when it writes off these complex and often charged subjects as "sub-amateurish." It is also important to note than the Salient article irresponsibly (and admittedly so) selects an uncharacteristic quotation to gloss judgment over the entire magazine (and dangerously close to the entire bi/gay/lesbian community), a tactic which strikes me as more "sub-amateurish" than anything printed...
...Israel's tactic, fashioned in part by Washington, satisfied few outside the Clinton Administration. The deportees held out for full enforcement of Security Council Resolution 799, which demands their immediate and unconditional return. Meeting with American Jewish leaders on Tuesday, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali suggested that the proposal did not satisfy U.N. demands. Back home, Rabin, attacked by the right-wing Likud Party for "capitulation to terrorist organizations, Arab governments and leftist ministers in the Cabinet," told the Knesset that Israel retained the option of deporting more Palestinians...