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...secret that General Tommy Franks didn't want to hang around Iraq very long. As Franks led the U.S. assault on Baghdad in April 2003, his goal--and that of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--was to get to the capital as quickly as possible with a minimal number of troops. Franks succeeded brilliantly at that task. But military-intelligence officers contend that he did not seem interested in what would come next. "He never once asked us for a briefing about what happened once we got to Baghdad," says a former Army intelligence officer attached to the invasion force...
Freshmen orientation also fails to deal with alcohol in a realistic and useful way. Far less attention is paid to alcohol abuse during orientation than to sexual assault, and while freshmen hear about the rules and punishments for drinking, very little to nothing is said about safe alcohol...
...shot him 23 times; in Gaza City. The hit on Arafat--a military strongman widely suspected of corruption--was tied to power struggles within the ruling Fatah Party. Facing near anarchy in Gaza, Abbas ordered security forces to find the killers, who also abducted Arafat's son during the assault but released him two days later...
...this time a crucial consolation was missing. After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault. But Katrina was in the cards, forewarned, foreseen and yet still dismissed until it was too late. That so many officials were caught so unprepared was a failure less of imagination than will, a realization all the more frightening in light of what lies ahead. For if we couldn't help our citizens in an hour of desperate need, how well will we do in six months or a year...
...living near any bus stop. "All of a sudden they are telling me where I can live and where I can't live. They are trying to take everything away from me," says Elwell, a former teacher who served one year in prison after pleading guilty to the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl seven years ago. Now married with two kids, he owns a pizza shop in Cape...