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Perez kept in touch with his men over the radio or by going helmet to helmet. He'd run 100 yards or so from firing positions to bolster the confidence of his shooters and then head back to the relative safety of Hell's Half Pipe to see how his wounded men were faring. "That means a lot to soldiers," Grothause says. "It lets you know somebody still cares, and it helps boost what little morale you have left...
...homes have been flooded in northern Vietnam, and an estimated total of 23 million people have been displaced in Nepal, India and Bangladesh. China was the most dangerously poised: the mighty Yangtze River swelled ominously, and the government claimed to have mobilized a million soldiers and civilians to bolster dikes around Dongting lake. By week's end, there was little evidence of immediate danger, but if the lake breaks its banks, the homes of some 10 million people in central Hunan province will be endangered...
...Stewart's lawyers has continually "tweaked" her story, Johnson says. In the June 12 letter, they said Stewart's Merrill Lynch broker Peter Bacanovic called her on Dec. 27, informed her that ImClone's shares had dropped below $60 and sold at 1:43 p.m. The chronology helped bolster her claims of an earlier stop-loss order. But her story changed with new documents obtained from Stewart's office six days later. Instead of a single call from Bacanovic on the afternoon of Dec. 27--as ImClone's stock fell below $60--records revealed an urgent effort by the broker...
Almost everyone agrees the most promising markets are Russia and other countries in Asia. Both have beefed up corporate governance and taken steps to bolster their domestic economies. Russia benefits from low labor costs and vast natural resources. Brad Aham, emerging-market portfolio manager at State Street Global Advisors, owns Russia's two big oil stocks, Lukoil and Yukos, which should benefit as the West looks for oil outside the Middle East. But all Russian industries will benefit as "post-9/11, Russia more clearly aligns with the West," says Aham. The ING Russia fund is a stalwart in this...
...Administration hopes its proposal for the new Cabinet department will bolster sagging public faith that the government can prevent attacks. "Now we're on offense," says an aide. In Congress the plan will probably touch off a furious battle whose outcome could define Bush's presidency. But the story of how the Administration decided to stage its megamerger--and yet not take on the dysfunctional intelligence agencies--is a case study of the decision-making process of America's first M.B.A. President. George W. Bush likes to think of himself as a CEO who makes the big decisions but leaves...