Word: controller
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...burning houses--the world will eventually give you just about anything to stop the atrocities. By July 1999 the beastly killing spree had spurred Washington and London into brokering a flawed peace-at-any-price, handing Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front amnesty, four seats in the government and control over the country's rich diamond mines. In return, the rebels were supposed to disarm and behave. Instead, the amnesty emboldened them; they sold smuggled diamonds for fresh weapons; they got ready to grab power. The slapdash pact assumed Sankoh actually wanted peace, trusting in the good faith...
...National Rifle Association did something odd last week, even by its standards. Responding to the Million Mom March in Washington for gun control, the N.R.A. presented television and newspaper ads in which its president, Charlton Heston, and an "N.R.A. mom" announced a new challenge program. "We're putting up the first $1 million to put gun-safety education in every classroom," said Heston. The N.R.A. mom added, "That's a million N.R.A. moms challenging a million more moms just like...
...real threat to that business model, however, is client-to-client-based programs like Napster, Gnutella and Freenet that make searching and swapping MP3 music files quick and painless. Suddenly Metallica and Elektra no longer control the quantity and destiny of their songs. It costs zip to download Metallica's And Justice for All via Napster. If you're selling CDs, it's hard to build a business around that price point...
...most of the weapons at their disposal, including ground forces, and to take greater risks. There may be deep helicopter-borne assaults, fierce night attacks and sweeping armored maneuvers, all supported by highly lethal area weapons and long-range precision-kill capabilities. Political constraints will be relaxed, and control of the actions will be delegated to on-scene commanders. Unfortunately, significantly greater casualty rates can be expected among both military and civilian populations...
Will such restraint continue for long in the anarchic, post-cold war era? American officials hope so, but they aren't betting on it. Now as before, when it comes to proliferation, the U.S. tries to have it both ways. It supports a wide range of arms-control efforts designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons abroad while hanging on tightly to a nuclear capability of its own and sometimes even brandishing it to make a point. This attracts criticism from others, but hypocrisy is par for the course in international relations. And besides, American officials are correct...