Word: weaponeering
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Second-seeded Harvard had defeated No. 3 St. Lawrence by five goals in the ECAC championship two weekends ago—and that was when the Saints had their top offensive weapon in the lineup. So with opposing star Gina Kingsbury off with the Canadian national team, taking the Frozen Four semifinal from a weaker squad should’ve been clean and easy for the Crimson, right...
...thinks Sharon is trying to egg on such a battle: "Israel wants us to kill each other. Then who will they need to negotiate with?" He, for one, says he will not get involved. "I will go sit with my wife and tell the Prime Minister, 'You take a weapon and fight them...
...last August, told me a few weeks before his death that suicide attacks are an expression of human dignity in a situation that seems hopeless. "We show Israel we refuse to accept their occupation lying down," he said. In the creed of Hamas, suicide bombs are the most potent weapon Palestinians can wield against a better-armed enemy. The killings make Israel understand, Rantisi told me last summer, that "force will not defeat the Palestinians. Ever." Palestinians know "we're not winning the war," says Raji Sourani, a human-rights lawyer in Gaza. "But at least we died trying...
...into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted to be the wiseguys with lethal charm, the types who get immortalized onscreen by the "O Team"--Brando, De Niro, Pacino. And maybe become their own O team: Soprano. The FBI loves this, because a mobster's ego is the most fragile weapon in his arsenal. Set it off in public, and it can explode. Indeed, the mythologizing of the Mob by Hollywood and HBO could almost be a giant sting operation...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Second-seeded Harvard had defeated No. 3 St. Lawrence by five goals in the ECAC championship last weekend—and that was when the Saints had their top offensive weapon in the lineup. So with opposing star Gina Kingsbury off with the Canadian national team, taking the Frozen Four semifinal from a weaker squad should’ve been clean and easy for the Crimson, right...