Word: apartness
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...after even Sudan didn't want him. Khalis lives in an adobe compound a short distance from Jalalabad on the road to Tora Bora. He was close with the Taliban, which used his land as a parking lot for its tanks - more than a dozen of them were blown apart by US missiles and now lie wrecked on Khalis's land. Khalis himself is old and incapacitated, but he and his followers once excelled at smuggling Mujahidin fighters through Tora Bora during the war against Russia. His followers could easily arrange safe houses...
Israel has tried and failed to decapitate Hamas, and that task, should he take it on, would be no easier for Arafat. There is no mastermind without whom the military apparatus falls apart. After all, its actions are cheap and simple and take no special genius: hit-and-run attacks on Israeli soldiers, suicide bombings. So whenever one set of leaders is assassinated or rounded up, it's easy for another to take its place. In the past few months, Hamas has instituted a multitiered system of automatic replacements, borrowed from the communist underground of the 1950s. In each city...
Gerald Levin's carefully laid plans for filling his shoes almost fell apart last May. Richard Parsons, one of Levin's two deputies and the man he wanted to succeed him as CEO of AOL Time Warner, was being avidly recruited to be CEO of food-and-tobacco giant Philip Morris. In a car ride back from a corporate retreat at the Hilton Rye Town, in the New York City suburbs, Levin urged his protege to stay...
...mainly believe in God, country and kicking ass. About religion and patriotism they are straightforward and uncomplicated, pretty typically American. Kicking ass is a different matter. At that, a Ranger or a Delta Force soldier is a world-class expert--superbly trained, heedlessly brave, a figure set very much apart from the rest of us. In large measure, that's because his elite military status has given him something he didn't find in school or on the streets back home--that fierce pride in self, unit and mission that accrues when you are volunteering your life...
...Sulawesi a few days after the group's attacks, the road is still heavy with the stink of charred wooden buildings and trees, and is lined on both sides with smashed houses and the odd gutted church. Apart from a few desultory looters?just about everything that could be moved has already been carted away?the only human presence amid the utter destruction is a handful of local Muslim men checking traffic for any Christian foolish enough to return...