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Representative Paul Demakis—whose precinct gained a large chunk of Cambridge under the new redistricting—was the only member of the Cambridge delegation who voted in favor of the redistricting. Demakis also implied that Barrios was to blame for the drastic redistricting...
...game at the Army War College, the U.S. and its allies were unable to eradicate a terrorist group that resembled al-Qaeda. "These new terror groups are built the way the Internet is built," says an officer who took part in the exercise. "Every time you destroyed one chunk, the rest stepped in to fill the gap." Initially, air strikes against Afghan targets are likely; but Pentagon sources stress that a massive carpet-bombing exercise isn't in the cards. "There isn't that much to hit in Afghanistan," says an Air Force planner, "and we want every bomb...
...invasion is ruled out, substantial military force is not. As soon as the U.S. gathers credible intelligence on bin Laden's whereabouts, expect a combination of air power and special forces on the ground. "I think we'll end up paralyzing a big chunk of Afghanistan with air strikes, and then move rapidly to do a decisive takedown," a U.S. Army general tells TIME. If that is the game, a nighttime blizzard of cruise missiles and bombs would be followed by U.S. commandos--probably including elements of the 82nd Airborne, backed by elite Army Rangers and Delta Force members...
...quite. In reality, much of the Koizumi story?and a sizeable chunk of his persona?has been carefully airbrushed out of his public profile. Few realize that the effervescent election campaigner is in fact a loner, isolated from all but a tight-knit circle of longtime advisers; or that the New Age reformer is an old-fashioned nationalist at heart, influenced by some of the country's most extreme right-wing politicians; or that the man with the seemingly natural empathy for people is, in his private life, aloof and cold, prone to putting career before family. And only...
...prove to be even more shocking than that on Pearl Harbor. In 1941, the Japanese air force launched itself against military targets on an island - not yet a state - in the middle of the Pacific. This morning?s terrorism was directed at civilians, in perhaps the most densely inhabited chunk of real state in the nation?s largest city...