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...difficult one." And even that might not be fast enough. Donald Rumsfeld has acknowledged that the pace of training may be too slow: "We are thinking about ways that it can be done faster." With the warlords not growing any weaker, time has become another enemy. --Reported by Brian Bennett, Anthony Davis and Michael Ware/Kabul...
...government called "a regime of terror in which democratic authority is sinking." As one of the first consequences of the state of emergency, the government decreed a one-time tax, which is aimed at raising $780 million to finance extra military spending. MEANWHILE Elvis is Toast New Zealander Maurice Bennett crafted an unusual portrait of the King of Rock 'n' Roll on the 25th anniversary of his death. Two months in the making and covering 5.76 sq m, the portrait consists of more than 4,000 pieces of toast. If Elvis were alive...
...butchers alike, it is an indispensable companion that serves without favor or prejudice. It has reached into every civilized corner of the world--and often brought civilization with it. From its wires spring the words of history in the making, the chatter of daily life. English Novelist Arnold Bennett called it "the proudest and the most poetical achievement of the American people"...Millions of Americans pick up the telephone to get the weather or the correct time, shopping news, stock market quotations, recorded prayers, bird watchers' bulletins, and even (in Boston) advice to those contemplating suicide. Teen-agers could hardly...
...extra $1 billion to $2 billion to upgrade the country's aging cable lines and offer cable telephony immediately--instead of gradually, as he had planned--he decided to walk away, as he often has at the last minute. "A very wise man," Liberty Media CEO Robert (Dobb) Bennett said at the recent stockholders' meeting, gesturing toward his mentor, "once told me the best investments are the ones you decide not to make...
...singer; that takes some getting used to. His voice was thin, reedy, not quite suited for the high notes or large gestures of the standard tenor. But that was his genius: even before Bing Crosby, Astaire democratized singing. "Almost every great male icon of the art - Crosby, Sinatra, Torm?, Bennett - takes from Astaire," writes Steve Schwartz on Classical Net. "The male pop singer B.F. (before Fred) sounded something like an Irish tenor. ... The limitations of Astaire's voice forced him to find another way - deceptively casual, never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene...