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...Cambridge this weekend, impress them with your newfound college sophistication by sipping on one of America’s oldest and most refined cocktails: the Old Fashioned. This classic cocktail was invented in the late 19th century at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Ky., for a prominent Southern colonel and whiskey connoisseur. Since that time the Old Fashioned has been a favorite of the stylish. From speakeasies to lawn parties to Hollywood soirees, the Old Fashioned was such a staple it inspired a Cole Porter song, “Make it Another Old Fashioned, Please...
...reach of much enemy fire. They can be unloaded 15 miles from their target, offering pilots additional protection. Plus, the bomb kits are user friendly. "It takes me about an hour's work to launch a cruise missile but only 10 minutes to launch a JDAM," says Lieut. Colonel James Dunn, a B-52 bombardier at Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base who lobbed the bombs in Afghanistan...
...edge of the casbah, Colonel Noam Tibon and his patrol funnel from their jeeps and spread out. It's 1 a.m. and the dark streets of Nablus, under curfew for almost four months, are deserted. Twelve hours ago, a Palestinian gunman shot two Israeli border policemen on this spot. Even now, the shadows and silence are deceptive. "If we stand here a few more minutes, they'll shoot at us," says Tibon, the 40-year-old commander of the Nahal Brigade. In those circumstances, most people would leave right away. But Tibon plans to stay. Israel's reoccupation...
With a new war looming, the temptation will only increase for the U.S. to allow the bickering Afghan warlords to settle scores on their own. But the risks of walking away now are huge. If the U.S. does, says British Colonel Nick Parker, a military planner in Afghanistan, "we'll all be back here in five years fighting another terrorist organization." If America hopes to rally the world to help rebuild a post-Saddam Iraq, finishing the job in Afghanistan is a test it still must prove it can pass. --Reported by Tim McGirk/Islamabad, Alex Perry/Kunduz, Simon Robinson and Michael...
...just begun negotiating a 20-year oil-delivery deal with Washington and just opened its vast natural gas fields to about $4 billion worth of U.S. and foreign investment. Still, the U.S. does not expect an easy partnership with Chavez, who as a paratrooper colonel led an abortive coup himself 10 years ago. The April uprising did sober him into dumping the inept socialists he had put in charge of Venezuela's state oil monopoly - and who had been lavishing heavily subsidized oil shipments on Chavez's buddy, Cuba's communist President Fidel Castro...