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...home from work weary, upset by the price of gasoline and generally stressed out and found your issue about the war in Afghanistan in my mailbox. It snapped me right out of my gloom. Up in the hills of Afghanistan, exhausted and laden with weapons and gear, an American perseveres. The face of Marine Corporal Patrick Gravenese on your cover said it all. He is tired of the war, but he has to go on--for all of us. We here at home lament the minor difficulties we encounter, while our troops are over there, sweating it. God bless them...
Like most Indian kids, Prabhu wanted to play pro cricket. He may have fallen short on the field, but he's hitting a six in the suites. Tellabs, the Naperville, Ill., telecom-gear maker (2003 sales: $980 million) that sells data systems and voice enhancers, recently named him CEO. The board is betting on a repeat. When Prabhu, 49, was boss of Alcatel USA, a division of the French telco, revenues increased fivefold, to about $5 billion, over his three-year tenure...
...Disconcerting Duty With your article on the deployment in Iraq of soldiers from Asian countries [Feb. 16], you included a photo of a Japanese soldier in full combat gear on patrol in the southern town of Samawah. You noted that Samawah is not an area of heavy Iraqi resistance, so I found the soldier's attire disquieting. I would rather have seen him wearing a T shirt and jeans while building a school and surrounded by smiling Iraqi children than ready for battle. Tetsuro Umeji Kudamatsu City, Japan...
Pettit dug it out, junior Brendan Bernakevitch teed it up, and Kolarik threw it on net from along the goal line and off Danis’ gear for the go-ahead goal...
Bush in High Gear His team is launching an elaborate ground and air re-election plan with $140 million behind...