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...taking its own responsibilities. Wouldn't you like to have more troops? Yes, I can always wish for more. NATO needs more forces because we have an ambition to go [into western Afghanistan, where there has been unrest in the city of Herat]. If I look into the more distant future, [calls on NATO's] participation or leadership will increase, not diminish. NATO's performance will be more and more judged on the way it's running its operations. We need very close relations with the U.N. We need very close relations with the Organization for Security and Cooperation...
...Adair and his two apprentices ... have tamed 50 wells in Bahrain, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Canada and the U.S. With an affluence known to no other firemen, Adair and his boys race to U.S. oil-field fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals [and] fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms ... For all his flamboyance?he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls, safety helmets, office rug and secretary's hair?Adair is methodical about his business, [and] carefully notes and catalogues everything he learns from a fire 'so as to have a little nugget handy in our minds...
...that began three years ago in lower Manhattan has never been a conventional one, waged solely against enemy armies in distant lands. It is a fight for the hearts and minds and souls of millions of Muslims like Omar Shakr, whose life choices may have a greater impact on the long-term security of the U.S., its citizens and its allies than battlefield victories or intelligence reforms. That struggle did not become immediate for most Americans until Sept. 11, 2001, but it has burned in the Islamic world for decades. On one side are the proselytizers of radical Islam, many...
ELECTED. APIRAK KOSAYODHIN, 43, a member of Thailand's opposition Democrat Party; as governor of Bangkok. Apirak's victory is a blow to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's ruling party, whose favored candidate came in a distant second. Apirak, a former telecommunications executive, said his priority would be to tackle Bangkok's bad traffic and pollution...
Sometimes prosaic things, objects as modest as toast, can trip distant memories, commemorate struggle and celebrate love. Aprons have that power...