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...Bush administration officials have stressed the long-term nature of the war against terrorism, which is precisely what makes maintaining the coalition so essential - because direct military action plays only a minor role in such a conflict, the lion's share of which is waged at the political, diplomatic, intelligence, law enforcement and financial levels. And the trick, in which Secretaries Rumsfeld and Powell, Prime Minister Blair and a host of others are heavily engaged right now, is to ensure that whatever military action is taken doesn't throw the rest of the project off balance...
...Columbia, Johnathan Reese picked up 66 yards rushing and the lone Lion touchdown. Wide receiver Doug Peck caught six passes for 116 yards...
...impossible to replace Massoud, Afghanistan's strongest champion of moderate Islam and a passionate nationalist who led the resistance against Soviet occupation, earning the title "Lion of Panjshir" for doggedly defending the valley. For years he complained about Washington's reluctance to rein in Pakistan's covert military support for the Taliban. "We have told Western countries again and again of the dangers of Taliban extremism, of bin Laden and his terrorists," he recently told TIME at his headquarters. In recent years, however, he came to be seen in some Western circles as a leader who could challenge not only...
...component of these forces are the ethnic Tajiks who control the strategically important Pansjir valley. The Taliban have failed to dislodge them despite launching massive annual offensives - but they did strike a body blow last week by assassinating the Northern Alliance's key military leader, Ahmed Shah Masood, the "Lion of the Pansjir." The Northern Alliance forces only control five percent of the country, but the Taliban's harsh regime has provoked growing resentment, even among Afghans who initially welcomed their takeover...
...caught at a moment of alert creativity. The story, however, was about his inability to create, to write. At age 79, paralyzed in his left leg by two strokes suffered after his wife's death in 1998, he finds that he cannot complete the third volume of The Last Lion, his biography of Winston Churchill, for which readers have been eager for years. "I can't put things together," says Manchester. "I can't make the connections...