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...special forces in Afghanistan are frustrated by the perception that they are killing civilians heedlessly; they insist many strikes have been called off because of concern over such deaths. And they refuse to talk to the press. Last week a TIME reporter spotted two of them at the gates of a Gardez hospital; others were out back, tinkering with a rusty generator. But the two soldiers bolted. By the weekend, U.S. forces were fighting al-Qaeda suspects near Gardez in the fiercest battle in months. One American was reported dead. Civilian casualties were unknown...
...practiced ease, was the one who caused the machine to seize up came as a surprise to top Administration officials. Within an hour, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House chief of staff Andrew Card and counselor Karen Hughes had all gathered in the press secretary's office to insist he make a formal retraction, which he did. "Ari made a mistake," Hughes said later. "What he said was not U.S. policy." As another top official told TIME: "Ari usually sticks pretty close to message. This was an aberration...
...Saudis insist on the opposite order; they aren't interested in talks unless Sharon endorses Abdullah's vision. In any event, the Saudis say they have nothing more to add. They have no interest in the laborious--and until now unsuccessful--work of hammering out details of a peace accord. "We are not in the real estate or zoning business," says the Crown Prince's foreign policy adviser Adel Jubeir. According to Arab diplomats, Abdullah has two immediate objectives. One is to lure the U.S. back into its old role as mediator between the Israelis and Palestinians, a function President...
Once free, Lek and Tip appear unable even to consider that their mothers may have sold them into sexual slavery. They insist they want to go to Kentung, in Burma's eastern Shan state, to live with Tip's family. With trepidation, we agree to try to get them there. With traffic heavy on the bridge into Burma, the four of us cross unnoticed into the border town of Tachileik, which is a good thing, since the girls lack the requisite ID papers to enter their homeland. Fearing problems at checkpoints if we go to Kentung by road...
...scandals, no new ones have risen to take their place. We are witnessing a shift in what even popular journalists consider fair game. Some people persist in arguing that journalists are justified in airing the dirty laundry of anyone in the public eye: people want dirt and they insist on it. And perhaps we do. After all, a nasty, shocking scandal allows us to live vicariously in a sexy and seedy world that we can only catch a glimpse of in movies, not in our mundane lives...