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...diplomacy was as stunning as its precision: from the reluctance to use maximum force for the first few nights to the patient efforts to secure a mass surrender to the decision--even after the awesome bombing began--to leave the electricity in Baghdad untouched and the public infrastructure intact. Donald Rumsfeld at war seems far more tactful than Donald Rumsfeld in peace...
...honest, this game hurts right now, but our goal since the beginning of the season was to make it to the Frozen Four, and that goal’s still intact,” Moore said. “I’m going to have a smile on my face when I leave this building tonight because I’m going to be looking forward to next weekend...
...orders require every conceivable precaution to avoid inflicting civilian casualties. The major question facing General Franks now is how long to wait for further ground forces, and for the decimation from a distance of the Republican Guard, before fighting his way into Baghdad. Waiting would leave Saddam's regime intact, which may sustain the resistance of Iraqi irregular forces elsewhere in the country and could also bring increased pressure from Arab countries who have allowed their territory to be used to stage a war that they insisted, above all, be brief and decisive. On the other hand, accelerating the assault...
...diplomacy was as stunning as its precision: from the reluctance to use maximum force for the first few nights to the patient efforts to secure a mass surrender to the decision - even after the awesome bombing began - to leave the electricity in Baghdad untouched and the public infrastructure intact. Donald Rumsfeld at war seems far more tactful than Donald Rumsfeld in peace...
...piecing together the answers. Space-agency technicians have been scrutinizing the final, fragmentary transmissions that came from the disintegrating Columbia, particularly a telltale, 2-sec. scrap of data deciphered for the first time only last week. Analysts are also paying closer attention to the 13-min. videotape, recovered partly intact from the wreckage, that the crew made during re-entry. Perhaps most important, some former astronauts have been willing to speculate--cautiously--on what might have been taking place inside Columbia in the critical minutes after the video went black and before the ship was destroyed. The sketchy picture that...