Word: bunkering
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...battlefield; in death, by the manner of their dying. When Russian special forces cornered Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov in a basement in the village of Tolstoy Yurt, Chechnya, last week, they offered him the chance to surrender. When he refused, the Russians say, they blasted the concrete bunker in which he was hiding, killing him in the process. That final gesture of defiance has transformed Maskhadov's reputation. For years, many former comrades disdained him as a weak political leader who, after a victorious war of secession against Russia in the mid-1990s, allowed thugs and religious fanatics...
...reveals a remarkable consistency in the way the president has been characterized by journalists and commentators. The Los Angeles Times, for instance, referred to him as “abrasive” in the opening line of their Feb. 26 report, while the Weekly Standard compared him to Archie Bunker in a write-up about student protestors at Harvard. The Boston Globe has made several references to Summers’ “confrontational” nature over the course of their recent coverage, and the Washington Post, in their Jan. 19th report, mentioned his “reputation...
...data was pilfered, but the news sets a scary precedent. While most of us aren't toting around numbers for Anna Kournikova or Eminem in our address book, phones are often used to store sensitive information, says Adam Laurie, chief security officer for the London-based security firm The Bunker?including PIN numbers, alarm codes, and even safe combinations that could be lifted by a determined hacker...
Crichton has already adopted a bunker mentality. “We’re in the middle of a war—a global war of information versus disinformation,” he writes. “The war is fought on many battlegrounds. Newspaper op-eds. Television reports. Scientific journals. Websites...
...steers clear of any overarching theses in assessing Summers’ tenure. But his narrative paints a largely negative portrait of the president. One unnamed administrator is quoted as saying, “I’ve never been in a place with the combination of low morale and bunker mentality that now exists at Harvard...