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...nobody's produced the bodies or counted them. But the more important question may be their identities. It was initially believed that the enemy force numbered no more than 500, and comprised fewer than 100 al-Qaeda personnel who had joined up with local fighters loyal to unrepentant Taliban commander Saifur Rahman Mansoor in his home base. Later, U.S. commanders were talking about an al-Qaeda force numbering more than 1,000. Reports from the battlefield certainly confirm the presence of a substantial number of Chechen, Uzbek and Arab fighters, but many of those wounded and captured by the allies...
...Nonetheless, some of Andersen's most prestigious and loyal clients - including pharmaceutical giant Merck, mortgage agency Freddie Mac and Delta Airlines - are canceling contracts. "There's such a drumbeat of departures that it may trigger a flow of clients they can't stop," says Richard Ossoff, publisher of Auditor-Trak, which follows the accounting industry. "The 'Big Four' is a potential outcome." This reality is not lost on Andersen's competitors. A senior employee at Deloitte & Touche says his firm is "going after Andersen companies dead...
...active priesthood, a time when he lived in Boston and in Cape Cod's Yarmouthport, where he ran a bed-and-breakfast inn, he volunteered answers to questions I had not asked. "I maintained my celibacy because I believe in that, for me," he told me. "I remained loyal to the Lord, to my faith...
...rarely interfered with his vision. Given that Gaudí was given to changing his designs over and over during the building process, they needed to have bottomless pockets. Gaudí was also backed by superb Catalan craftsmen, particularly in stone and iron, and his studio included men both loyal and brilliant in their own right. One, the largely unrecognized Josep Jujol, is described by Van Hensbergen as one of architecture's "greatest creative geniuses...
Since then, she says, many loyal clients have come to the restaurant even more often...