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...happened before, on Oct. 16 - destroying supplies of food, tents, tarpaulins and blankets. Around the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif the Northern Alliance claimed that 35 Taliban had been killed and 140 captured in fierce fighting. At the end of the week Britain announced that 200 élite Royal Marine commandos were being made "immediately available" to boost the effectiveness of the U.S.-led campaign...
...list, compiled with the help of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, technology consultants and bankers, is made up of the leaders of tech companies with global potential and the relationship brokers who are helping European companies link up with venture capitalists and the world?s tech élite. Some on the list are out to prove the promise of digital content. Others hope to leverage technology to make major breakthroughs in treating disease...
...sonic bomb of seismic proportions on the Boston massive, I was finding such a thing increasingly unlikely. The atmosphere was a let-down—instead of a noisy club filling to capacity, I found several handfuls of bored people idly listening to the horrid strain of Latin-lite fusion muzak filtering through the sound system. It was another half hour before the lights finally dimmed...
...Middle East, touching down in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Egypt for consultations before moving on to Uzbekistan, which agreed to allow U.S. forces to use one of its airbases for search-and-rescue missions, but not for assaults on neighboring Afghanistan. Some 1,000 U.S. troops of the élite 10th Mountain Division left their base in New York en route to Uzbekistan...
...impose its own will, we are ready to join the antiterrorism coalition under the umbrella of the United Nations, despite our differences with the United States." Whether Iran acts on words like these depends on complex and competing forces within the country's political and religious élite. Since the attacks, many reformists have pushed to take advantage of the changed diplomatic landscape to improve ties with the U.S. Yet some within the reform camp, notably the hard-core left-wing militants who helped establish Hizballah, are standing their anti-American ground. Even among right-wing clerics there is disagreement...