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...some special forces for Tora Bora. They bestride the world as if it were the Rose Garden of the White House - all theirs." In less polite circles, such as those that turned Berlin into an anti-American free-for-all while George W. visited last week, the message is harsher. The funniest poster read: "Peace for the World, Pretzels for Bush." Others called him a "war monger" who was "not welcome," his face circled in red and bisected by a slashing red line. Some placards accused him of slaughtering the innocents of Afghanistan under the pretext of fighting terrorism...
...calls, made in hazardous circumstances. Expertise in small-arms infantry tactics as well as ethical acuity enters the mix. The bulldozing of booby-trapped buildings in Jenin has been questioned by some international critics. But the Israelis say they warned occupants to evacuate first and chose to avoid far harsher measures, such as air power. And houses, unlike shattered human bodies in suicide bombings, can be rebuilt. Suicide bombings don't warrant reprisals against civilians, under the norms of international humanitarian law, but they do warrant urgent measures of self-defense...
...enunciate positions for the Republican Party as the future House majority leader. DeLay met with Bush after the Missouri speech. Bush told him he understood that DeLay was voicing Republican frustration with the administration's Middle East policy and appreciated that his criticism hadn't taken a harsher tone...
...Washington, Dr. Eliot Battle, a Harvard researcher, has opened a new clinic called Cultura: Skin Care for All Skin Colors. He is using Cool Touch on patients with darker complexions, whose skin often gets discolored by harsher treatments. In New York City, many financial professionals make a lunch-hour pilgrimage to the uptown dermatology clinics of Neil Sadick, Lori Polis and Roy Geronemus...
...Vincent Chin would be alive today if he were not Asian—there is no doubt about that,” said Helen Zia in the film. Zia was a key actor in the effort to secure harsher punishments for Ebens and Nitz...