Word: tooled
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...Outing an undercover CIA officer to help one's boss shouldn't be protected by the First Amendment. It would be a travesty of the concept of a free press. False leaks are lies. Press manipulation has been a common tool of this Administration. Martin Santry West Cape May, New Jersey...
...planes left to pick up people elsewhere--calls for a Passenger Bill of Rights are getting louder. The Senate introduced such a bill on Feb. 20, and a House version is coming soon. Here's how they stack up to JetBlue's new policy, which relies on that unfailing tool of appeasement: cash...
...says Mohammed Bashar al-Faidi, a spokesman for the Association of Muslim Scholars. "For the sake of the entire Muslim community worldwide, the beast has to be destroyed in Iraq." For leaders of terrorist groups, the fear of a regionwide Shi'ite ascendancy serves as a useful fund-raising tool as well as recruiting propaganda. Radical Sunni preachers and TV talk-show hosts across the Arab world are inflaming sentiments by accusing Iraq's "Persians" of ethnic cleansing. In January, an editorial in al-Ahram, a newspaper widely seen as the voice of the Egyptian state, declared, "Iran is working...
...this goal, independent of the administration, marks a significant departure from the endless bureaucratic quagmires of years past. Still, the UC stepped on too many toes in hastily rolling out the new hotline, and there is much left to be done if the hotline is to become a useful tool for improving pedagogy at the College. The hotline, launched last week, was a top campaign promise of newly-minted UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. Instead of pushing the idea through the Faculty of Arts and Sciences?...
Though fashion exists as a means of expression within the black community, it has arguably remained a political and social bargaining tool with those outside of it. While black people have infiltrated boardrooms and fashion houses, culturally-black forms of expression have failed to share an equal space with the dictates of mainstream conservative dress. Black hair style has been at the forefront of this tension. While the most accomplished politician may don a strikingly conservative suit, the decision to lock, braid, or straighten hair heightens awareness of blackness, eliciting a variety of reactions. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...