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...Taliban, which has a long history of harboring terrorist organizations. Its reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, threatened yesterday that unless the U.S. withdraws its military from the Persian Gulf, stays out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and leaves the Muslim world alone, there will be “an endless war that will burn America and America only.” These are not the words of international cooperation in the face of mass murder. Given the high probability of U.S. military action to disrupt bin Laden’s network, the Taliban has much to gain by convincing...
...center of policymaking. He is relishing the task. "The four stars are bulging out of his shoulders," says a State Department official. "Powell doesn't get into conflicts easily. But when he does, he wants to use overwhelming force." At news conferences throughout the week, the Secretary detailed an endless round of diplomacy: the first-ever commitment by NATO to activate Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which considers an attack on one member of the alliance as an attack on all; expressions of solidarity by foreign ministers from Italy to India; a warm letter from President Bashar al-Assad...
...squabble over imaginary “lockboxes” and our popular culture dredges the gutter for lowest-common-denominator fare. And we have fought our wars from a distance, dropping bombs from 30,000 feet and lobbing missiles across continents, while at home we have occupied ourselves with endless, FX-laden tales of the “greatest generation,” those stalwart heroes of an earlier time, when wars were fought by men and not by cruise missiles...
...Island, leave Fighting Cock Rock and Teapot Island on your left and you can't miss it.") Kayaking is hard work, and the limestone seascape is a maze of wrong turns. But for those in need of a rest, the islets are home to plenty of tiny beaches and endless caves, like the recently discovered Tam Cung: three cathedral chambers housing great stalagmites bunched together like organ-pipes. Sheltered by the islands are fishermen's huts, pearl farms and even a primary school, all balanced on gently rocking rafts. From the shore these are overlooked by the more lavish weekend...
...escape themselves; the words of a battered, bruised colossus of a firefighter sobbing, “I tried to save them all—but I couldn’t”; ghostly figures, caked in the dust of the wreckage, running north through the streets of Manhattan; endless lines of donors waiting to give blood...