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Second, when opponents of current policy use oversimplified and ultimately erroneous arguments to make their points, they encourage their political opponents to do the same. Given the resources available to the Pentagon both for publicity and data manipulation, this is unlikely to prove an effective tactic for changing current policy. It would be far better to force the administration to justify its policies with detailed, careful discussions, rather than to indulge in theatrical displays...
Personal injury cases are famed in legal circles for generating splashy, new ways of highlighting evidence. Merritt's tactic may well be copied by other plaintiffs' lawyers-when the stakes are high enough to justify the production cost. But Merritt does have one nagging concern...
...plant shut down. Despite repeated pleas from company officials, strikers refused to surrender the motors. As the weeks dragged on, the protesters exchanged their sit-in for angry picketing outside the plant gate. With negotiations at a stalemate, company officials last week successfully used a unique tactic for solving the labor-management dispute...
While many criticize him for playing variations of himself, Nicholson has made such a tactic practicable by proving his self to be supercool with a tinge of vulnerability, bitterly, defiant of--but emotionally affected by--a world without any apparent reason or overseeing deity. His surface steely-eyed, fierce-grinning goblin envelops a much more luminous, purposeful character in whom we see our hopes, anxieties, lusts, and humanity, and with whom we attempt to carve a moral niche in the rotting bark of 20th-century civilization. Nicholson's important films involve religion of the self; he acts as he sees...
...course, intangibles win only if there's execution in the tangible realm. This weekend's victories required a total defensive effort, mostly because both well-disciplined opponents sent seemingly incessant waves of attackers toward the Crimson goal, a tactic which demanded continuous communication, support and anticipation...