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...Horn's allegations." Personality clashes played their part: a State Department colleague calls Huddle "a little martinet," while a DEA buddy admits that Horn is "sometimes pigheaded." But the core of the fight in Burma was a vexing question of policy: How intimate should Washington be with a vicious regime to win its help on curbing drugs...
When the Palestinian extremist group Hamas unleashed a blitz of bloodshed on Israel in mid-October, climaxing in the suicide bombing of a Tel Aviv bus that left 23 dead, it meant to escalate the conflict between Arab and Jew to a more vicious level. Last week Israel gave an uncompromising answer to the challenge. Through leaks to the media, Israeli security officials let it be known that "this is now a war with gloves off. Whatever is needed to neutralize these people, whether it's to put them in jail or whatever, will be done...
...straining tendons and muscles. Deadlines, speedups and employee monitoring programs can exacerbate the trouble. RSI sufferers also must deal with the skepticism and resentment of co-workers (who may have to pick up the slack) and the knowledge that their productivity has been impaired. This can lead to a vicious cycle in which the victims are so worried about their jobs that they work even harder, making their hands and arms worse...
...Harvard Police Department's new administrator must revamp morale among police officers, stop vicious infighting in the security guard unit and boost the department's sagging finances...
...spoke perfect English and claimed to hold degrees in physics and mathematics from Canadian universities -- while still believing fervently in voodoo -- and, so he said, a onetime diplomat with the Haitian mission to the United Nations. He was also the head of a gang of thugs unusually vicious even by Haitian standards, the FRAPH. Those letters are the initials of the French words for Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, but to most Haitians they stand for murder, torture and beatings...