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Four large tables overflowed with food on all sides. From cakes to pies to cream puffs, baked brie to grapes, and a piƱata-laden table with nachos and fixings, first-years agreed that the dining hall staff had outdone themselves...
...believe it will be the unexpected defeat of George Bush and the failure to capture or kill Bin Laden. I believe he will continue to outsmart this Administration. He's far more intelligent than the Butcher of Baghdad. Tom Plummer Bourbon...
...Rumsfeld's world, all that was long ago. For weeks he has been itching to get back to wrestling his real nemesis, not Saddam or Osama bin Laden but what he sees as the need to remake the military to fight villains like them for the next 25 years. Known as transformation, the initiative was the first fight he picked when he returned to Washington in 2001. At the time, he wanted to shrink the military and reduce its footprint overseas, in part by cutting the Army by two or three divisions. There was talk of killing cold war weapons...
...deaths of the children and promise full investigations of the circumstances. But that doesn't address the larger problem of how to gather intelligence accurate enough to target wanted terrorists and minimize innocent deaths. A senior U.S. intelligence official concedes that the problem is unsolved: Hekmatyar, bin Laden and former Taliban leader Mullah Omar are all still at large. "The results speak for themselves," the official says. And the job may only get harder. In his videotape, Hekmatyar warns his followers not to use sat phones, seeking to deny the Americans even their advantage from overhead. --With reporting by Timothy...
...Caroline--like Caroline--doesn't move us as she should. The anecdote that sets the story in motion seems too thin to carry the message-laden freight. The broader social milieu--the early civil-rights movement, the J.F.K. assassination--is merely introduced, not dramatized. The musical aims for operatic tragedy and--with the help of Pinkins' steely, square-shouldered power--keeps promising a big payday. But too often, we can't help feeling a little shortchanged. --By Richard Zoglin