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...Baghdad to decapitate the regime and then liberate the rest of the country--Saddam has counterattacked from the outside in. He let allied forces plunge deep inside Iraq, leaving their rear and flanks ill protected so that his forces could harass and ambush them. His aim was shrewd and twofold: to pester and wear down allied forces and lure the U.S. into inflicting politically costly civilian casualties...
...general population, either because they have political support there or because they terrorize civilians into protecting them. (My guess is that in Iraq today both conditions are met.) So the strong power has to hunt the enemy not on the battlefield but in towns and villages. The risks are twofold: an ambush like that in Mogadishu or a gradual alienation of the local population leading to unbearable political pressure to end a war - which is how the French were forced out of Algeria. In the 1950s, the British perfected antiguerrilla warfare in Malaya, Cyprus and Kenya. But that was before...
According to Gardner Key, manager of The Harvard Bookstore, the store had a twofold increase in shoppers compared with any normal day. The store also saw more profits than the same day last year, he said...
Cook says his intentions in writing Shock were twofold. “I wanted to underline the fact that this monetary economy is emerging for female eggs,” he says, “and I wanted people to know something about embryonic stem cell technology and the basics of therapeutic cloning.” The book does just that, at times relishing the details of the scientific minutia so lovingly that a non-biology concentrator can become a bit confounded. But the main idea is one anyone can grasp: The egg donation process is dangerous?...
...confident in the information they receive about companies then they face more risk, interest rates rise and it becomes more difficult for all companies, even honest ones, to raise money. Therefore, the government’s response to the business scandal of Enron’s collapse should be twofold. First, it should enact laws to better regulate the energy market and prevent firms from hiding losses. Second, the government needs to eliminate the conflicts of interest facing accounting firms and ensure that they make adequate audits. To do this, the government should create a new agency with powers similar...