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...quote, 'old Europe,'" Zinni told TIME. Says Robert Deaderick, 87, a veteran who's attending the anniversary of the liberation, "The French and the Germans have treated the Americans right shabbily over Iraq these last few years. It serves them right that they'll have to fend for themselves more...
...Many would-be investors also griped that they had too little information to make a buying decision. Brin and Page offered precious few details as to how the cash injection would be invested or how the company would fend off rivals like Yahoo! Instead, the founders simply asked prospective buyers to ?trust us.? In a post-Enron world, could someone really make trust a central investment criterion...
...once certain thresholds are exceeded, very rapid changes can occur." In some cases, thirsting trees perish because their circulatory systems--the long tubular columns in the trunk that transport water from the roots to the crown--collapse. In other cases, the trees become so weak they can no longer fend off insects and disease...
...against al-Qaeda, but does that mean we should sit back and watch as children starve to death? We spend millions to rebuild a country that despises us--and gladly murders our soldiers and beheads our citizens--but we leave other people in desperate need to fend for themselves. KERRYANN BOLTON Silver Spring...
From almost the moment the first jet slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center, the government's reaction to the day's events was so confused that it effectively eliminated any chance to fend off the subsequent attacks. The Federal Aviation Administration had difficulty tracking and alerting the military to the hijackings. Top brass did not learn about United Airlines Flight 175, or American Airlines Flight 77--which the FAA lost track of for 36 minutes as it turned toward the Pentagon--until around the time the planes crashed. They didn't learn about United Airlines Flight...