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...hunters stalked their prey from the sky and in the shadows, armed with instruments of death and waiting for Osama bin Laden to reveal himself. Above the gnarled ridges outside the besieged cities of Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that...
...away their locations. "The confidence level is fairly high," a senior U.S. official told Time. "We've got a pretty good handle on generally where [bin Laden] is." American warplanes were dispatched to help finish the job. EGBU-28 bunker busters burrowed through yards of limestone, and AGM-65 Maverick missiles homed in on cave openings, destroying the labyrinths and their inhabitants...
Michelle Branch is one such shining example in the musical firmament. After being signed to Madonna’s recording label, Maverick (no small feat in itself), her debut single, “Everywhere,” has ignited radio waves from coast to coast, and her first album, The Spirit Room, has peaked to date at number 84 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart. That’s not too shabby for any artist breaking into the business, but at the age of 18, Branch’s accomplishments simply astound. Granted, other kiddie stars have climbed...
Several panelists criticized the maverick reputation the United States has developed under the Bush administration, which did not sign the Kyoto Protocol and did not participate in the Durban conference against racism...
...needs a cautionary tale about the impermanence of popularity, Koizumi need only call on former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa. In 1993, Hosokawa was a proto-Koizumi: a young, telegenic maverick, who promised to mend Japan's then newly burst bubble economy and reform old-style politics. And yes, he too had a youthful, blow-dried haircut. Hosokawa bolted from the LDP, cobbled together a coalition and became Prime Minister with Koizumi-like approval ratings. True to his word, he opened the protected rice market and introduced campaign-finance reform. But a minor scandal and an unwieldy coalition deflated Hosokawa. Eight...