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...their leader, fear of the wrath of his victims, fear of the invaders or simply by patriotic sentiment, many thousands of Iraqis have taken up arms against overwhelming odds despite the coalition's exhaustive efforts to facilitate their surrender. That underscores the depth of the challenge that may lie ahead in pacifying Iraq. Many Iraqi forces are no longer in conventional military formation, but have adopted guerrilla tactics to face a more powerful enemy. Tuesday's sandstorm attack on the 7th Cavalry, for example, was carried out by members of the Fedayeen Saddam, a youth militia run by Uday Hussein...
...here: “We are a Darwinist’s delight, superbly adapted to vanquish every competitor. In the Harvardian universe, the advantage often goes—at least in the short term—to the manipulative and dishonest and cutthroat, the people willing to backstab and lie and cheat their way upwards...
...away from determining what technical failure caused Columbia's crash (investigators are examining foam that struck the left wing shortly after launch and super-hot gasses that entered the left wheel well during reentry). But the overuse of safety waivers has emerged as a sign that some blame may lie with NASA's approach to risk assessment. Many waivers, from snapped pins to broken foam, had been carried over from flight to flight, becoming virtually institutionalized weaknesses during Columbia's 22 years of use. "It's vitally important for us to understand why engineers are raising the same concerns they...
Directorial one-upmanship and the censure of Friedkin’s predecessors for an overreliance on technology in action films perhaps lie behind such comments. Although moral lines become fuzzy within the film, the meta-filmic lines of combat stay fairly stable: Friedkin lives up to his goal, producing a nauseatingly violent action film without any key high-tech, high-caliber sequences...
...administration attacks the Michigan program for being a quota. I think the technical term for that is a lie,” he said...