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...August meeting in Damascus was a confrontation between two men with vastly different resumes, styles and visions. Hariri, 60 at the time of his death, was a gregarious, self-made billionaire with friends from Paris to the Persian Gulf. Assad, an ophthalmologist, now 39, had inherited the presidency after the death of his father Hafez in 2000. Hariri had tried to court the younger Assad, but by last summer the two men were on a collision course. First Assad ordered Hariri to support a change to Lebanon's constitution that would extend the tenure of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud...
...Paul Bunn is an old hand at combat, an infantryman who served in Panama and the first Gulf War. This latest experience was the worst. His unit in Baghdad, part of the military's quick-reaction force, which deployed for four-day stretches against insurgents, was hit by 37 improvised explosive devices while in Iraq, 13 in one day in Sadr City. Bunn still has nightmares about a rocket attack on his unit in April 2004. He spent two hours, he says, picking up "pieces and pieces and pieces" of bodies of U.S. soldiers. He remains agitated about...
...attending West Point in the early '90s, the appeal of a career in uniform was fading. The Berlin Wall fell during his freshman year. "We went from the cold war to a thousand points of light," he recalls. "The feeling was, What are we doing?" During the first Gulf War, in 1991, the academy took to playing I'm Proud to Be an American again and again in Eisenhower Hall. "I just thought, O.K. already, I get it," he recalls. To this day, he can't quite bear to hear it. It's his version of Gulf War syndrome...
...specs for his new global headquarters, Parsons illustrates why there is nothing ordinary about his job. "We'll have an open-plan newsroom, and we hope to put in a small gym," he explains as he surveys the building site, a former parking lot in the tiny Persian Gulf state of Qatar. After a brief pause, he adds, "And the prayer rooms--don't forget the prayer rooms...
...translation of the Arabic service, Parsons says, but an independent operation staffed by about 230 journalists in more than 30 foreign bureaus. The editors and reporters will be native English speakers, including many Westerners. (The in-house mosque is a standard feature of office buildings in the gulf states, to be used by any Muslim employees.) Parsons has snagged senior managers from respected media organizations, including his alma mater, the London-based Associated Press Television News. He wants some old journalistic hands in front of the camera too. He has signed up Riz Khan, a former program host...