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...times, Hamas has been willing to consider a “long term truce” with Israel, but is simultaneously unwilling to recognize Israel’s permanent place in the region. Israeli leaders rightly view Hamas’ tactic as an attempt to stall any meaningful negotiations while they arm themselves with more sophisticated weaponry to attack Israeli civilians...
Bold but never naked ambition is the animating force of Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top (Ballantine), the audacious book by Nina DiSesa, chairman of the flagship New York City office of the advertising agency McCann Erickson. She lets out a war whoop, intent on "breaking down the barriers of that impenetrable bastion of male arrogance and supremacy: 'the boys club.'" One weapon, she confides, is "the Art of S&M (Seduction and Manipulation)." One of DiSesa's guiding principles, however, is, "Don't confuse seduction with sex (one is a brilliant business tactic...
...mocks. He is popular within the ANC and is frequently invited to perform at their events. However, Uys refuses to be a simple court jester: during a Winnie Mandela impersonation at an ANC event, Uys performed a skit about “necklacing,” a violent execution tactic endorsed by Winnie Mandela during Apartheid. Mandela, sitting in the front row surrounded by bodyguards, simply laughed. “You’ve got guts,” one of the bodyguards said after the show. Uys responded in characteristic form: “Can I keep the guts...
...delay is widely seen as a stalling tactic by Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime to give its "shock troops," government-allied mobs known as the "war veterans," to fan out across the country, seize land and intimidate voters in the event of an eventual presidential run-off. Tsvangirai told TIME this week that what was happening in Zimbabwe was a "de facto military coup." Government spokesman Bright Matonga has countered - with no evidence to support his claims, however - that the veterans are trying to resist a program of land seizures by white farmers crossing into Zimbabwe from South Africa...
...prepare? I solicit questions from just about everybody I know. I ask civilians. I ask partisans on both sides. I've also found as a tactic that the moderator's eyes have to be very carefully focused. You really have to remain kind of an impassive figure at these debates...