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...provided a fascinating analysis of why and how some of us have that inner fire of ambition while others do not [Jan. 9]. Your article might drive some readers to ask, "Am I or can I be successful in my career?" Sometimes we need a push to leave what we are doing and find something that we can be more successful at. However, a focus on individual ambition and financial success is not healthy. If we ignore civility and empathy, we only exacerbate social decay. Our role models should be those whose ambition and success brought about betterment...
...Secret Snooping TIME reported on the controversy over President George W. Bush's secret directive to allow the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on phone conversations in the U.S. without a court-ordered warrant [Jan. 9]. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Those who are up in arms about the secret spying on people with known links to al-Qaeda would be the first to blame the President for not preventing another attack. I am not an apologist for Bush, but he did get this one right. Terrorists need to know they can't use our eavesdropping laws against...
...billion Trips made by Chinese for the lunar New Year holiday, which began Jan. 29--the largest annual migration of humans...
...Baghdad just days earlier to prepare a special news program on the Iraqi conflict to be broadcast after President George Bush's State of the Union address. They were filming in an area outside of Baghdad where rebels have stepped up their attacks against U.S. and Iraq forces. On Jan. 16, rebels in Taji fired a surface-to-air missile shooting down an AH-64 Apache helicopter, killing both of its crewmen...
...late Peter Jennings as anchor of the network's flagship "World News Tonight". So far, over 60 journalists have been killed in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in March 2003, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, making it the world's most dangerous war zone for newsmen. On Jan 7th, Jill Carroll, an American woman freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped by a previously unknown rebel group. Her abduction was denounced by Muslim groups here in Iraq and abroad as well as by several insurgent groups...