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...just the armed forces that will have to adapt to guerrilla warfare. So will the public. Americans like their wars to have clean endings, with ticker-tape parades and a memorial on the Mall in Washington. But guerrilla wars aren't like that. Parents of fighting men in the old colonial powers got used to hearing that their sons had died in sordid skirmishes whose names nobody had heard of or - like the six Americans killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last week - in accidents far from home. Guerrilla warfare may have fine American antecedents, but we have always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing by Mogadishu Rules | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...publicly. Before, people were killed secretly and individually, but this happened openly. After that night, the whole world knew it would not get better at all, and Jews knew only a dark future. It was called the "Night of Broken Glass," but it was more than that. You can clean up glass, but you cannot do that with people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nov. 9, 1938 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...hours. Their base, Camp Viper, in south-central Iraq, had a team of 44 medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, medics and corpsmen. I toured the two 40-ft. by 40-ft. operating tents, each reinforced with two layers of tent canvas and a solid floor. They were clean and sanitary, as any operating room should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Front with the Devil Docs | 3/30/2003 | See Source »

...Please be assured that the White House wants this commission funded adequately.'" Kean said the White House told him this afternoon that "they had hoped to be able to go over our budget last week. They just weren't able to." Kean added that they wanted to keep a "clean bill"-but now they don't mind if Congress adds the money. McClellan said this evening that the White House is "looking into whether some additional funding might be available without any further legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9-11 Commission Funding Woes | 3/26/2003 | See Source »

...ABOUT GIVING ME A RUN-THROUGH OF YOUR ACCEPTANCE SPEECH? JUST IMPROV FOR ME. I CAN CLEAN IT UP IN THE EDIT. It's a funny thing. It's a hard thing to sit through when you're nominated. I've got to tell you, the Golden Globes this year was the first time I ever went to one of those ceremonies that I won. And I didn't know how to deal with it. But that's part of me. I've always felt myself as an outsider, you know what I'm saying? Usually at these events they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Director's Cut | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

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