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Today it does, and the SOG's capacities are growing. Its maritime branch has speedboats to carry commandos to shore, and the agency can rent cargo ships through its front companies to transport larger equipment. The air arm, which Pentagon officials have nicknamed the Waffen CIA, has small passenger jets on alert to fly paramilitary operatives anywhere in the world on two hours' notice. Other cargo planes, reminiscent of the Air America fleet that the agency had in Vietnam, can drop supplies to replenish teams in remote locations. For areas like Afghanistan and Central Asia, where a Russian-made helicopter...
Wolf, 56, is able to branch out like this because--in a business in which producers tend to see themselves as the visionaries and see the network brass as the businesspeople--he runs L&O like a CEO. Unlike such micromanagers as The Practice's David E. Kelley or The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, he delegates heavily to his staff. And because his shows emphasize stories over character development, each actor is replaceable; L&O has run since 1990 without Friends-style salary increases or creative exhaustion. "Other shows eventually descend into a kind of soap opera," says Dragnet...
...results are based on an examination of the medical records of more than 5,000 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 1991 and 1997. According to Dr. Xianglin Du, assistant professor of internal medicine and geriatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and lead author of the study, there was "a clear divergence between recommendations from the National Institutes of Health and what is seen in clinical practice." The NIH guidelines, developed by experts in the field and released in November 2000, found "substantial" benefit from chemotherapy for both premenopausal and postmenopausal women...
Krugman said that in considering Mankiw the Bush administration is simply looking for someone famous to add luster to the executive branch...
...legs, seriously wounding him. Said's disillusionment was complete. "We were and are begrudged [the right] to lead a more or less happy life," he says. "Our dream of a sovereign state ... has proved a fantasy." Determined "not to go on like this," Said joined the local branch of Islamic Jihad and volunteered as a shahid, or suicide attacker. "We have nothing - neither vehicles nor tanks, let alone planes, with which we could wage war against the Israeli army and for a sovereign Palestinian state," he says. "We only have our bodies. They are our only weapons." Although aware that...