Word: react
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...group from Badakshan province allied to former President Burhanuddin Rabbani. The latest confidential U.N. report on security, seen by TIME, concludes that a full-fledged "power struggle" is under way. "Those elements that have the most to lose from a stable and democratic order in Afghanistan have begun to react," U.N. undersecretary for political affairs Kieran Prendergast says. Moreover, in the run-up to the June 22 loya jirga, or grand meeting of all Afghanistan's regional elders, which will decide who succeeds Karzai's administration, tension is only expected to increase. Against the warlords, the frail 87-year...
When the highest profile working mother in the country - Acting Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts - flames out, how are low profile working mothers supposed to react? After I said that Swift's ineptitude transcended gender on CNN on Wednesday, I got 20 phone calls from annoyed viewers who hate it when women don't stick together. "Too bad," said one caller, "you don't have "working fathers to beat...
...Creveld believes the IDF is in a no-win situation. Failure to react harshly to Palestinian attacks only encourages more attacks; but reacting harshly to Palestinian attacks also spurs more attacks. And, he warns, the Palestinians have the greater capacity to absorb casualties. "As Israel's own experience in its War of Independence shows, no sacrifice is too great for a people seeking their freedom," Van Creveld writes. "Compared to the 1 per cent of the Jewish population who died in that conflict, Palestinian casualties so far have been minute...
...weren’t able to set our offenses as much as we would have liked,” she said. “We’ve always been working on backdoor cuts but those require impeccable timing and some real trust and we didn’t react well to their changes...
...think our triangle-and-two was good until they started hitting in transition and we didn’t react well.” Monti said...