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General Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, calls the recent assault on Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants in the Shah-i-Kot Valley an "unqualified and absolute success." But he concedes that pockets of resistance remain and promises to go after them unceasingly. The British last week pledged to help, committing 1,700 troops to the effort. Who are these holdouts, and what are their aims? To find out, TIME embarked on a search for surviving Taliban fighters who refuse to yield. It required weeks of negotiation with Taliban commanders, who finally proffered an invitation to meet...
...Wechsler has also found that during those same years, there was a threefold increase in the number of women who reported being drunk on 10 or more occasions in the previous month. Among women who drank, there was a 150% increase in "unplanned" sexual activities, date rape and sexual assault. To be sure, women at single-sex schools still drink less than those on coed campuses, and both populations drink less than men. But, says Wechsler, "by drinking heavily, these women are definitely putting themselves at greater risk...
...frightening. Last year twice as many women as men--one or two each weekend--were rushed to the local hospital owing to acute intoxication. Some suffered from alcohol poisoning and needed a stomach pumping; others had fractured bones after drunken tumbles. A handful sought treatment for sexual assault. "Our women are drinking one for one with men, but they're coming in much more damaged," says Dessa Bergen-Cico, the university's associate dean of students. "We're seeing a real role shift going on here...
...will become all the more acute in the coming weeks by the likelihood of an outbreak of violence more intense than the one that forced President Bush to send his envoy in the first place. Israeli military officials have told the Washington Post that they're planning a "comprehensive" assault on Palestinian towns and refugee camps if no cease-fire is achieved, a military action broader and deeper in scope than the recent one in which some 150 Palestinians were killed over a two-week period. The objective of such an offensive would be to kill or arrest militants...
Colm o'gorman is suing the Pope. Although his allegations of abuse against Father Sean Fortune led to legal proceedings against the priest on 66 counts of sexual, indecent assault and sodomy, O'Gorman has yet to receive an apology from the Catholic Church. He is also suing Fortune's bishop, Father Brendan Comiskey, who was reportedly first informed about allegations against the priest in the early 1980s, but nevertheless allowed him to continue to minister in the southern Irish town of Fethard...