Word: undo
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There is a grim economy to the way a terrorist works, born of a dark arithmetic: fear rises exponentially. One whisper can undo a city. The very group that gave us the word assassin--a secret band of loyalists gathered around Hasan i Sabbah, the "Old Man of the Mountain," in Persia 900 years ago--mastered the basic law of terror: that even the smallest threat can ripple out to touch those a thousand miles away. Iago gave us the evidence: plant uncertainty in a shaky mind, and suspicion spreads like blood across a handkerchief...
...part, the Likud finally and officially buried old threats to undo the peace agreements that established Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to the party's new platform, a Likud government would "honor international agreements" and "recognize the facts created on the ground by the various accords." Netanyahu, having said he would never meet with Yasser Arafat, was compelled to concede that he might...
...City may go down as its Waterloo. Said to be the nation's most ambitious and expensive magnet plan, Kansas City's effort is unlikely to be matched anywhere. In fact, the high court's action has accelerated the pace at which cities across the country are moving to undo mandatory desegregation (see map). And the federal judiciary, which long staked its authority on the enforcement of desegregation orders, appears eager to depart the field. Chris Hansen of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City observes, "The courts are saying, 'We still agree with the goal of school...
...suicide bombers, has been imprisoned by the Palestinians. Security officials tell TIME he has admitted that five more bombers have been given their devices and are waiting to strike. Nevertheless, Peres has ordered no cataclysmic counterblow, no unleashing of Israel's superior might but rather a dogged effort to undo the terrorists through the conventional means of enhanced intelligence, mass arrests and collective punishment. Peres vowed the peace process would continue, but for the first time he linked its pace to the success of antiterrorist efforts by his Palestinian partner, Yasser Arafat...
...Weekly Standard, the Washington magazine that styles itself the official voice of the Republican revolution, has an overheated editorial in its March 4 issue titled "The Buchanan Challenge." Buchananism, the editors declare, is a corrosive anti-institutional populism that threatens to undo the gains of 1994 and trap the G.O.P. in an anti-American, anti-capitalist swamp...