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...commanders think it is only a matter of time before the U.S. has to launch its own combat missions inside Pakistan. Until that happens, some think the military should consider using small squads of around 10 men to "bait them out," as one soldier suggested to another in a creek bed during the recent operation, adding, "Heck, I'll be bait." That, of course, might result in U.S. deaths, which could prove a propaganda victory for al-Qaeda. "You want to chase down every one of them, but do you want todo that on their terms or yours?" asks paratroops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSIDE THE JIHAD: AFGHANISTAN: Taunts from The Border | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...down rhymes like carpet.” Comments roommate David B. Stevens ’03: “I don’t know about that, man. It might be more accurate to say that he ‘watches Dawson’s Creek like a teenage girl,’ or that he ‘leaves his shit lying around like a four-year-old.’” However, Weinstein’s seemingly contradictory rejoinder to these charges—“I don’t write rhymes, I write...

Author: By G. GOSSIP Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...event.) IBM, in a letter to Burk, cited its support for women's groups and added, "We do not view our sponsorship of the Masters tournament as contradictory to this commitment." But in 1990 IBM pulled its sponsorship from the PGA Championship after learning that host club Shoal Creek, in Birmingham, Ala., had no black members. The club quickly integrated, and the PGA passed a rule that tour events can be held only at clubs open to all. The Masters, however, is not an official tour event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Teed Off | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...made. This May in Sudbury, Ont., I saw new forests that were recolonizing hills destroyed by 100 years of nickel mining. The community raised the money and worked for months spreading lime and planting vegetation on the blackened rock. I released the first brook trout into a once poisoned creek there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of One | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

White's first career break, though, was as a writer for the WB's more well-scrubbed teen soap Dawson's Creek. "That was very difficult for me because it was about people who are better-looking than the normal person and more eloquent, and they live these more exciting lives," White says. "To me, watching that kind of thing is oppressive." But he does have a commercial streak. Orange County was a rare, mature teen comedy with well-drawn characters and a surprising message: an aspiring teenage writer (Colin Hanks) discovers he doesn't have to escape his suburban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Sneaky Kid to Comic Creep | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

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