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...John McCain. "Let's get on with it." Fissures in the international coalition are becoming visible, with Europeans encountering more hostile public opinion. In Britain support for the war has slipped from 74% to 62% in two weeks. "The carping takes a toll," says an aide to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, "especially if you don't have any Iwo Jimas to point to-and we don't have...
...Hoping to ward off criticism of the government?s response to the infections, acting New Jersey Governor Donald DiFrancesco ordered anthrax testing at 44 mail facilities in seven counties, even though some of the mail centers have already been tested...
...Many of the hip-hop attendees are area college kids looking to pick up some new moves. In fact, the class has recently been dominated by Harvard students, historically known for their hip-hoppin, ass-shakin’ abilities. Ryan G. White ’04 and Rory S. Donald ’04 are taking a proactive stance to ameliorate their lack of rhythm and admit that they come to Santoro’s class to learn steps they can bust out at parties. “Dancing is important at parties,” said Donald, adding...
...quagmire as "soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot" and as "a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position." It has been part of the U.S. political lexicon ever since it seemed an apt description of the U.S. experience in Vietnam. In the last week Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has had to devote a considerable amount of his time to explaining why it's a misnomer for the current situation in Afghanistan. He was responding to the steady rumble from the media, politicians, Afghanistan experts and even some U.S. allies that the operation has the hallmarks of a classic...
...started flying lazy circles over Afghanistan, hammering targets below at will. If the skies were safe for AC-130s, it followed that low-flying choppers could deliver commandos into enemy territory. Inside the Pentagon, military planners conceded that the air war was producing diminishing returns. And so Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began dishing out the rhetoric. On Monday he stressed that American forces should "develop relationships" with anti-Taliban forces on the ground. B-52s "are powerful and can do certain things within reasonable degrees of accuracy," noted Rumsfeld, "[but] they can't crawl around on the ground and find...