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...near Mazar-i-Sharif, with three uniformed U.S. special forces officers in attendance. "Over cups of tea and biscuits, the terms of the surrender were agreed: all the Afghan fighters trapped in Kunduz would be allowed to go home. The Arabs, however, would be taken to General Dostum's mansion, where they would be sorted out into terrorists and non-terrorists, and then their fate would be decided." Weirdest detail: The Taliban emissary traveled with 600 heavily armed fighters in a 39-vehicle convoy, making many Mazar residents think the hated movement was back in town. The deal was pretty...
Late last year, Rudy Giuliani was sitting in the library at Gracie Mansion, offering career advice to a visitor--billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg. The financial-data tycoon was thinking about changing jobs. Among the possibilities he'd been mulling: President of the United States, Secretary-General of the United Nations and--his top choice--mayor of New York City, and never mind that he had no experience in government. Giuliani could see he was serious about the third idea. A lifelong Democrat, Bloomberg intended to switch parties in order to have a clear shot at the Republican nomination. Giuliani...
...almost half the city's Latinos and a quarter of its African Americans voted Republican, ratios Giuliani himself never achieved. (Rudy had prophesied as much to Bloomberg a year earlier in the Gracie Mansion library. Says Giuliani: "I told him the only advantage to being a Republican in New York City is the Democratic primary, where they kill each other.") And so for the first time in modern history, the city's residents elected a man who knows almost as little about them as they do about him. In an interview with TIME last Friday, after breakfast with former Mayor...
...Bloomberg does not have Giuliani's common touch--he'll pay himself a dollar a year but live at his East Side town house instead of Gracie Mansion--or his experience as a prosecutor. Some complain that he has not thought deeply about what Sept. 11 means to New York. Bloomberg opposes the creation of a separate agency to guide the city's rebuilding, something Giuliani and Governor George Pataki support. Last week he estimated the city's fiscal 2003 deficit at $2.5 billion, when many analysts put it at $4 billion. He has no experience dealing with unions--Bloomberg...
That said, I'd recommend that anyone with young kids lean toward the cute and lovable GameCube. Nintendo has mastered that market, and by mid-December should have 20 titles ranging from new twists on old characters--Luigi's Mansion, a Mario spin-off--to Pikmin, the latest from Shigeru Miyamoto, the genius behind the Zelda franchise. The GameCube has abandoned its cartridge format; games now come on adorable mini...