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Bush has set himself a high challenge. He has made the riskiest commitment by his country in a generation. He has promised Americans that this war will do more good than ill. The President sounded uncommonly confident as he spoke, but wishes are one thing and reality another, especially in a region accustomed to mirages. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy and Mark Thompson/Washington; Helen Gibson/London; and Scott MacLeod and Amany Radwan/Cairo
...easy. Saddam is considered one of the world's richest men, but over the past three decades, he has gone to great lengths to conceal his vast, ill-gotten fortune. "Money is profoundly important to Saddam, but not because of greed," says Dr. Jerrold Post, a psychiatrist and former CIA profiler of the Iraqi leader. "It represents instead his insurance policy and a tool through which he exercises power and manipulates others...
...other new acquaintances--and had an epiphany that would transform her professional life. "I thought to myself, These are people who should know one another," says Ryan, who was also the mother of four children under age 7. Some of her new contacts were moms from her kids' Evanston, Ill., schools who had left their careers years ago but were ready to tiptoe back. "I was meeting accountants and lawyers at mom-and-tot classes who wanted to find a little work," Ryan says, "but who had no idea...
...chat is faceless: at Ryan's urging, members sometimes meet locally for wine-and-cheesers. "You get curious about who these folks are," says ChicWIT mingler Amy Braun, a manager for a Barrington, Ill., computer-consulting firm. At a recent get-together at the Illinois Institute of Art in Schaumburg, 100 women (and a few men) greeted Ryan with thunderous applause...
While HSA’s goal of bringing employment to Harvard Students is a good one, it comes at the cost of students dealing with the ill effects of its College-supported monopolies. If a group is attempting to provide its employees and managers with “practical business experience,” it should get used to having to compete with other companies in the area of in-dorm ring sales and fridge rental. The College should stop preferential treatment of HSA, and the deans should enforce their regulations equally. Most importantly, students should be free from...