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Circled by high terrain and nations struggling with their own Islamic unrest, Afghanistan is among the hardest places on earth to fight. Other worries: millions of land mines, a harsh climate and a population famous for resisting invasion...
Much of the hoopla that usually ensues each time Dershowitz announces his next case clouds what he says are rigid guidelines he follows in choosing his clients, a task which he says is, “the hardest thing...
...confides. He goes on to say, “I started making friends and became involved in school activities…I think that really helped”. Now a Harvard first-year, Edgar finds the ‘ordinary’ aspects of college life the hardest to get used to. “I had never seen snow before and the American food was hard to adjust to. We sometimes try to make Sierra Leonian food, but its just not the same over here”, he explains ruefully...
...days to find Manuel Noriega in the relatively benign environment of Panama. "We're good at hitting big, immovable things," says an Air Force general. "We don't do so well when they move around and they're small." Both are true of bin Laden. "He is the hardest man ever to get to," says Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland. To avoid being spotted by satellites, bin Laden and his associates use human couriers to relay messages, who sometimes travel on foot rather than in cars. He has been extra careful since Chechen secessionist...
...anguished New Yorkers who lost loved ones in the World Trade Center, Howard Lutnick was perhaps the hardest to watch on TV, especially for anyone who has ever known responsibility for a lot of people. Lutnick, 40, is CEO of the bond-trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which appears to have lost as many as 700 of its 1,000 Trade Center employees, those who were at work last Tuesday between the 101st and 105th floors of the north tower--just 10 floors above where the hijacked jet plowed in and exploded...