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...into the morning, trying to shake off last night's indulgences or perhaps just waiting to resume them. It's the kind of place where disappointment is the default emotion and where Japan's much-hyped economic revival hasn't quite kicked in. "This used to be a tightly knit community," sighs shopkeeper Sumiko Shirai. "Now, it's the kind of place where people don't know, or even notice, their neighbors." But Shirai and her friends never imagined Nishi-Kawaguchi could become the kind of place where al-Qaeda terrorists might hang out. "There aren't even that many...
...leadership would help boost troop morale. With German artillery exploding all around him, he paraded up and down Utah Beach, ordering U.S. tanks to secure the flanks and U.S. engineers to breach eight 50-yd. lanes through beach obstacles. He refused to wear a helmet, preferring to don a knit wool hat. "We have landed in the wrong place," shouted Roosevelt, who would receive the Medal of Honor for his valor that day. "But we will start the war from here...
Strict but colorful nuns and life-changing Jesuit priests also populate the former altar boy's fond rendering of the tight-knit Irish Catholic world of his childhood, where John F. Kennedy was king. It was good preparation for an early job working for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--Russert's intellectual father--who assured him that having hauled garbage during the summer, Russert would always have the advantage in a roomful of eggheads...
...Laden's terror network. The agency's counter-terrorism center ... had set up a special bin Laden task force. Analysts were assigned to read every word the Saudi had spoken or written. Computers with sophisticated 'link analysis' programs were busy printing out diagrams of bin Laden's loose-knit network, which included thousands of Muslim fighters ... In early 1996, intelligence sources tell TIME, the CIA also began making plans to 'snatch' Osama from a foreign country ... [It] launched a secret program to harass his network ... The CIA would spot bin Laden operatives in foreign countries, then quietly enlist the local...
Members of the 372nd were a tight-knit group that was deployed to Bosnia in 2001, according to Kerry Shoemaker-Davis of Fort Ashby, W.Va., who left the unit that year but whose husband remains with the 372nd in Iraq. After drills, she relates, members would head to the Big Claw bar near headquarters for beer, buffalo wings, karaoke and the raunchy jokes that the mostly male company loved to tell. "Oh, yeah, we would party," she says. "We would take the place over" and often shut it down...