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...struggling to meet a challenge unlike any other in living memory. The FBI was fashioned to fight conventional crime--drug gangs, computer fraud, car theft, the Mob. Now it's asked to fight secret terror cells with international reach. A public health system that was fraying in peacetime must cope with the reality of anthrax and the threat of worse. The Immigration and Naturalization Service, which used to focus on holding back the millions who want to come here to work, now finds its most urgent priority is to hold off the handful who would come here to kill...
...While most political leaders in the Islamic world are struggling to cope with the repercussions of the terror strikes in the U.S., the fallout from the attacks has played entirely in Mahathir's favor. Not only has PAS lost ground, but the opposition alliance that scarred UMNO badly in elections two years ago has collapsed, its component parties in disarray. Only a few months ago, senior UMNO members acknowledged privately that Mahathir's personal unpopularity over the Anwar affair could cause a disastrous plunge in support among the party's core constituency, the indigenous Malay Muslims who make up about...
...that's if the Americans get lucky. Whereas U.S. special forces have recently revised their training for the sort of urban jungles they had to cope with in Mogadishu, there has been little or no training for Afghanistan's terrain. "We're going to figure out this cave business as we go along," says a former special-forces commando. In much the same way, they will figure out what to do if they catch up with bin Laden or another al-Qaeda leader. In that event, the special forces would have to choose between a "snatch-and-grab" mission--tossing...
Equally stunning was the resolve of the Crimson, who was able to cope with the losses of veteran running backs Nick Palazzo and Josh Staph and quarterback Neil Rose and still escape with the victory...
...cope...but I had pride in being an outsider,” she said...