Something to celebrate Why phones are replacing cars No democracy please, we're shareholders Mission not yet accomplished Dangerous data ReprintsNo time for backslidingThe Americans need to isolate the worst areas, namely Fallujah and Najaf, patiently picking off the insurgents and resisting the temptation to use sledgehammers to crack some admittedly tough nuts.
Many were killed with sledgehammers and then thrown down a well.As Mr Pérez's star has risen, his rivals have tried to link him to the war's atrocities.
Earlier this year a dozen policemen marched into his building, then tried in vain to break down the reinforced-steel door to his flat with sledgehammers.
Choking from the tear gas fired into the crowd, some hoisted sledgehammers to smash up the pavement in order to hurl broken slabs over improvised barricades that now enclose a makeshift camp.
Two weeks later hidden tombs were discovered in the north-western city of Durango from which 100 corpses have so far been extracted.The Tamaulipas victims were apparently killed with sledgehammers or burned alive.
One day in 1985 Zhang Ruimin, appointed a year earlier to rescue an ailing state-owned refrigerator factory, tackled its quality-control problems by joining his workers in taking sledgehammers to 76 defective fridges (in a big parade, one wonders?).
The government said the site was unstable and last month sent in police with guns and workmen with sledgehammers.
Some of the conservative government's actions over security have not helped.Armed with guns and sledgehammers, in late October police and officers from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the federal security agency, raided homes of Indonesians living in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
It involves bolting iron plates to the walls of tunnels at regular intervals and placing sledgehammers nearby.
Incensed that a fifth of the products his plant turned out were defective, in 1985 he handed out sledgehammers and joined employees in smashing 76 faulty fridges in public view.
Two men armed with sledgehammers pounded a detached car door flat on the ground, creating a noise that made the line of skinny editors and retailers cringe.
