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Today, an analogous reconstruction is wholly impossible. A 24-hour-a-day media juggernaut has kept every facet of American troops’ behavior in check. Photos and videos have captured soldiers in various horrific poses: shoving elderly men, pointing guns at groups filled with women and children and shooting an Associated Press journalist—an act filmed with the journalist’s own camcorder. These tragedies may have been more frequent in postwar Japan, governed as it were by more permissive rules of engagement and heavy-handed orders from General Douglas MacArthur to secure American dominance...
...It’s a very tough way to make a living,” he says. “There’s no lazy man’s way to riches in horse racing. It’s like Wall Street or any other 14-hour-a-day job with a lot of numbers. Betting is much better as a hobby than as a way to support yourself...
...Ying-jeou likes to run. As mayor of Taipei for the past four years, he's become famous for a punishing 17-hour-a-day work schedule that includes a religiously observed half-hour jog. Over the weekend, he broke the tape on an utterly triumphant political race, winning a second four-year term in the mayor's office by a landslide. The question for Taiwan: will Ma complete his term?or will he choose to run for the island's presidency...
...wasn't warned. Edison says he tried to talk her out of entering the business. "I'm happy that she can do what she wants to do," he explains, "and that her dream will hopefully come true. But the unhappy part is that I go through 20-hour-a-day work periods, and I do not wish to see my sister do that. Who wants to see their loved ones going through so much pain?" Two days later Chen says over the phone that she thinks she performs better when she is just being herself. "I need to be comfortable...
...agency?s Counter-Terrorism Center, which coordinates the worldwide war out of the ground floor of the Langley headquarters, has ballooned to 800 analysts, technicians and covert operatives. Nearby conference rooms and snack bars have been commandeered for makeshift workstations. Empty pizza boxes, the residue of 24-hour-a-day activity, litter hallways. A financial team is feeding bank transfer intelligence to Operation Green Quest, a Treasury Department program to block al Qaeda?s cash flow. Agency scientists are also fielding anti-terror gizmos like OASIS, a computer that scans thousands of foreign TV broadcasts and quickly plucks out terror...