Word: tactically
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...were reported to be fleeing across the border to Uganda, while six Kikuyus were hacked to death in the popular tourist port city of Mombasa. Police, given orders to shoot rioters on sight, imposed a curfew at locations across the country and barred people from leaving the slums, a tactic which may have contained the violence but also kept innocent people from fleeing. The television channel KTN said 124 people had been killed, but other media tallies put the death toll closer...
...this particular December evening, Wilkinson is astounded by what he sees - something of a finals crunch among his famo-seekers. Having failed at "legitimate fame," he says, many students are desperate for anything to generate traffic and get a last-minute bump to influence their grades. One popular tactic: posting short videos of scantily-clad women, all bearing suggestive titles...
...scathing statement: "While the WGA's organizers can clearly stage rallies, concerts and mock exorcisms," the AMPTP said, "we have serious concerns about whether they're capable of reaching reasonable compromises that are in the best interests of our entire industry." The writers, meanwhile, tried a new labor solidarity tactic - donning Vulcan ears. A Star Trek Day picket line outside Paramount Studios Monday was jolly and well-attended, and writers there showed little sign of a weakening in resolve. "What's the mood in the Guild?" said Star Trek writer Jonathan Fernandez. "We're gonna stay out here until...
Israel's strategy is to squeeze Gaza's economy, cutting off all but a drip-feed of humanitarian aid in the hope that civilians will turn against the Islamists of Hamas. Critics condemn this tactic as an unjust "collective punishment" on all of Gaza's inhabitants. Nor has it stopped Palestinian militants from firing hundreds of homemade rockets into Israel. "What harm is our Pepsi doing to Israel?" asks Yazegi. "The Israelis aren't punishing Hamas, they're punishing the people. The militants have money, guns ... they don't care about the siege." He contends that after decades of conflict...
...actions of men like Osama bin Ladin appear more purposeful—though no less horrible.It will always be difficult to view the intentional murder of innocent civilians as rational, but “What Terrorists Want” makes it possible to see terrorism as a chosen tactic for an asymmetrical battlefield. By viewing terrorism more objectively, Richardson gives hope that we can develop and implement a plan to overcome it.—Staff writer Eric M. Sefton can be reached at esefton@fas.harvard.edu...