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...reflected the nature of the Afghans' opportunistic arrangements and the difficulties they raise in translating military success into enduring peace. Encircled for more than a week by 30,000 Northern Alliance troops, Taliban leaders turned to the time-honored art of the deal. The Northern Alliance was just as eager to avoid an internecine bloodbath. That is the Afghan way of war, where changing sides is as habitual as combat, and victories are often measured in defections, not dead...
...recoil. Companies seeking to divest a noncore asset or buy one that fits a strategic need can't wait forever. With stock prices no longer falling and the worst earnings news evidently behind us, bankers say, buyers and sellers of companies are better able to value assets and are eager to explore options. For example, analysts who cover J.P. Morgan Chase say the bank, stung by its exposure to investment banking, is looking for an acquisition in the consumer-lending area to diversify further...
...almost too easy for a girl to get by on the streets of Tokyo. Grown men are eager to wine and dine or entertain them at all-night karaoke joints. And if they need more cash, girls know they possess a marketable commodity. It's a crime to sell your body in Japan, but the law is widely ignored. Young girls know how to get sex dates through Internet sites they access on their cell phones. In Tokyo, countless sex shops openly market minors for anything from a grope to intercourse...
...until now, that was just how the Americans wanted it. Washington was eager to get the overflight rights and port privileges that come with the NATO declaration but was clearly set on waging the war on terror alone, mostly because doing it with others has proved to be a major hassle in places like Serbia and Kosovo...
Intelligence sharing, though more focused than ever in the face of a common recognized foe, remains an entirely national prerogative. But why rub it in? More than once since Sept. 11, European leaders have seemed eager to do just that. Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair held a minisummit to discuss Afghanistan last month in Ghent, just before a full E.U. summit, but pointedly excluded other member states...