Word: convertibles
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...obvious solution to the problem is simply to add more troops. Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat and West Point graduate who served with the 82nd Airborne, argues that the Pentagon needs to convert seven National Guard brigades--some 20,000 troops--into active-duty forces. Reed, an increasingly influential player in Congress on defense matters, thinks that would give the military the margin it now lacks in case North Korea or some other nation acts up. Another approach would be to create a new division from the ground up--not the kind that seizes ground and flanks...
...need that force driving you to keep coming up with something new," says Enright, sitting in a former industrial park in Williamsburg that New York University plans to convert into playing fields. "I don't waste my time worrying about being co-opted...
...morning thinking, 'How can we destroy the country and pull the wool over the media's eyes?' They think they're better than politicians and that people in politics are all liars. I think that's very dangerous." Campbell speaks with the zeal of a convert; he's a former tabloid reporter who jumped officially to the Labour Party after Blair became its leader in 1994. But in this case he may have the weight of evidence on his side, since Britain's top spies appear to be backing Campbell's insistence that although he did suggest some small changes...
...Conversion Is Backward Your cover headline asked "Should Christians Convert Muslims?" [June 30]. If this is a legitimate question, then what's the difference between a Christian missionary and a Taliban member who imposes his religion on Afghans? In the old days, conversion was simply a strategy for survival under intolerant regimes. It's a pity that conversion still exists and is even encouraged today. What makes Christianity any better than Islam, or vice versa? What makes any religion superior to any other? Isphanyar Bhandara Rawalpindi, Pakistan...
...cool, a primordial cool from an age before cool became bankable. Born and bred in the rarefied world of classical Kabuki?a 400-year-old Japanese theatrical form originated by troupes of itinerant artists and prostitutes?the 30-year-old actor has managed over the past year to convert his tradition-tempered stylishness into modern star power through a series of spectacularly successful film and TV roles. Sipping cranberry juice in a Tokyo caf? before a performance, dressed in a silk summer jacket and jeans accessorized with a Beastie Boys cap and an oversize black-skull ring, he explains...