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...woolen overcoat and orders everyone, including the reporter, to move out. The men pile into three cars and tear off in different directions. For more than an hour, they cruise near the launch site until all looks clear. Then a small team walks into a flat field to aim a rack of homemade launching tubes toward the lights of the Baghdad airport, home to U.S. chopper squadrons, supply units and the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, less than two miles away. The insurgents load three air-to-air rockets they have modified to launch from the ground, flash a signal...
...reported on al-Qaeda's new strategy of launching terrorist attacks directed at other Arabs [Nov. 24]. While it was comforting to kid ourselves that al-Qaeda was on the run, the terrorists are proving to be much more resilient and intelligent than anyone imagined. They have now taken aim at pro-Western allies like Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Meanwhile, in Iraq the bombings are becoming more focused. It is time for the U.S. to stop playing the kingmaker in a country about which it knows very little. SRINIVASAN SADAGOPAN Coimbatore, India...
...Soldier Hollow in midway (435-654-2002), visitors are steadying their .22-cal. rifles and taking aim at targets after cross-country skiing the Olympic biathlon course. Try not to be distracted by Soldier Hollow's backdrop--11,750-ft. Mount Timpanogos. down in the salt lake valley, you'll find the fastest ice on earth at the Olympic Oval (801-963-7109), where 10 records were set, eight of which still stand. You can try setting your own with the help of a coach and rental skates on the 400-m oval...
...sets my teeth on edge. His success has corrupted public taste, so that lots of people won't venture further into the dance world than Bourne." Bourne contends that his strength lies in ideas, not steps. "It's not groundbreaking choreography," he agrees, "but that's not my aim. Some choreographers create works specifically for the purpose of movement invention. But I try to be inventive with the concept, to stretch what dance can do in the theater." It was this theatricality that attracted Disney to him for Mary Poppins, one of theaterland's most eagerly anticipated events...
...Rochester-based Yings have since learned that not all families are so immersed in music, so they have made it their goal to bring the often-overlooked classical music genre to the community. College students are a big part of the community they aim to reach...