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...humvees, surely more money can be disbursed to rebuild hospitals and dispensaries. President Bush's program of establishing democracy in Iraq is not making its best showing at the moment. A low turnout for the Jan. 30 elections will not bring an end to this unjustified war. Sufghan Sarwar Khan Bristol, England I feel the deepest sadness for American soldiers, who must serve under a Secretary of Defense whose blend of supreme arrogance, utter ignorance and blinding incompetence puts them at such terrible and unnecessary risk. Surely even the most cursory acquaintance with The Art of War, the martial primer...
...more money can be disbursed to rebuild hospitals and dispensaries. President George W. Bush's program of establishing democracy in Iraq is not making its best showing at the moment. A low turnout for the Jan. 30 election will not bring an end to this unjustified war. Sufghan Sarwar Khan Bristol, England...
...ACQUIRED. Business-software manufacturer PEOPLESOFT INC., by rival Oracle Corp., ending a bitter 18-month takeover battle during which former PeopleSoft head Craig Conway compared Larry Ellison, Oracle's aggressive CEO, to Genghis Khan; in Pleasanton, California. Oracle closed the $10.3 billion deal after repeated rebuffs, making it the number two player in the lucrative business-applications industry behind Germany...
...CAPTURED. TOOR MULLAH NAQIBULLAH KHAN, chief of security for hard-line Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, and MULLAH QAYOOM ANGAR, another Taliban commander; by Afghan security forces acting on a tip from a Taliban insider; outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. Khan's capture could help U.S. and Afghan forces track down Omar, one of the most wanted fugitives in the U.S.-led war on terror. Afghan officials say the arrests, along with the capture of 17 other suspected militants last week, could also signal a weakening of the Taliban's three-year insurgency...
...year-old Dane proved to be as ambitious a choreographer of spectacle as D.W. Griffith or Cecil B. DeMille. Leaving behind the rush and grind of the city, opera-goers would be transported up a 100-m terraced plateau, into gilded pleasure domes worthy of Kubla Khan, with cavernous interiors of blue and silver, red and gold, transporting audiences into ecstasy. But when Utzon left the project in 1966, leaving its completion to a committee of local designers, audiences were left without their climax. Halls were swapped, interiors muted and Utzon's iconic shells became, in his own words...