Word: tamely
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...those individuals may also be--as Arafat is--the authentic leaders of their people. That is why the Sri Lankan government is about to begin peace talks with the Tamil Tigers, a group whose long use of indiscriminate terror, child soldiers, suicide bombs and assassination makes Palestinian radicals look tame. In 1995 it was the pressing American national interest to end the war in Bosnia that threatened to sunder the Atlantic alliance. To reach that goal, Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. negotiator, enlisted the support of Slobodan Milosevic. The Serb leader is a monster who is currently standing trial...
...Saturday night was less sexually charged than generically Harvard. Blissfully ignorant of their lack of rhythm, girls and guys gyrated stiffly to the sounds of Ja Rule, J. Lo and other J-prefixed pop/rap superstars. First-years outnumbered upperclassmen by far and, by all accounts, the night was fairly tame. So much for decadence...
When it comes to the fighting between PALESTINIANS and Israelis, there is one thing almost everyone agrees on: the conflict has been going on too long. The situation in 1990, when stoning and fisticuffs were common, seems almost tame compared with today's violence...
...GALLIANO, who now heads the house of Christian Dior, was recently knighted by Queen Elizabeth, but during one of the first shows of Paris fashion week, the designer's mind seemed to be everywhere but England. His clothes, which drew inspiration from Peru, Mongolia, India and Russia, were relatively tame compared with Galliano's usual antics. But they delighted the fashion press, which was unexcited by the collections in Milan. The Dior headwear shown here may be a bit extravagant for city dwellers, but it should help keep llama herders braving cold weather in the Andes toasty...
...stilt-mounted tin shack 75 yards away. Such lying in wait--or "shooting over bait"--is legal in Texas and defended by hunters. "It promotes a clean kill," says Gardner. Other sportsmen are troubled by the practice. Stan Rauch of the Montana Bowhunters Association believes that fed animals are tame animals and should thus be off limits. "Animals become habituated to people when they depend on us for food," he says...