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...center stage of the Manhattan magazine world--those must have been exciting, happy times, right? Wrong. While her career flourished, Carter's private life was rocked by a sequence of injury, illness, divorce and other disasters so relentless and extensive that it would be almost laughable if it hadn't been so painful. Carter, 57, now the editor in chief of My Generation, looks back on it all in a new memoir, Nothing to Fall Back On: The Life and Times of a Perpetual Optimist (Hyperion). As her subtitle suggests, the book is surprisingly upbeat. "I didn't want people...
...Clarke, the bombing of the Cole was final proof that the old policy hadn't worked. It was time for something more aggressive--a plan to make war against al-Qaeda. One element was vital. The Taliban's control of Afghanistan was not yet complete; in the northeast of the country, Northern Alliance forces led by Ahmed Shah Massoud, a legendary guerrilla leader who had fought against the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan in the 1980s, were still resisting Taliban rule. Clarke argued that Massoud should be given the resources to develop a viable fighting force. That way, terrorists leaving...
...months to be confirmed by the Senate; incoming Administrations tinker with even the most sensible of existing policies. The fight against terrorism was one of the casualties of the transition, as Washington spent eight months going over and over a document whose outline had long been clear. "If we hadn't had a transition," says a senior Clinton Administration official, "probably in late October or early November 2000, we would have had [the plan to go on the offensive] as a presidential directive...
...beat, either. Though I'm the congressional correspondent, I've spent most of my time since Sept. 11 back on my old beat, covering national security, the intelligence community and terrorism. For the past 10 months, I have been ringing up a lot of old contacts whom I hadn't talked to in several years to piece together this cover story. Reporting on intelligence and terrorism is like assembling a complex mosaic. No one source knows the whole story. Each person you talk to usually has a small piece of it that you have to put together painstakingly with other...
...women as their objects? Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss doesn't think sexual double standards will hurt Bachelorette--"It's 2002. A woman can do anything a man can do, and on TV too"--but he says it would have been harder to cast men for the show if they hadn't already seen the comely Rehn: "She's a known quantity. For men, the prospect of marriage itself isn't necessarily going to get them lined up to apply...