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...mistaken firings were, in fact, simply the result of Monday’s change to a new payroll system...
...Laden was raised in Saudi Arabian affluence and has spent much of his life that way. I believe he is living somewhere in the kind of comfort allowed by his wealth. If you think he and his entourage are living an ascetic life in a dismal cave, you are mistaken. CORDELL PUCKETT Albuquerque...
...they couldn't see the future either. The Indians had an illusion of their own, even more magnificently mistaken than the captains' vision of the Northwest Passage: peace everlasting with this strange new race. The corps carried shiny medallions to foster this dream. The coins showed President Jefferson on one side and a symbolic handclasp on the reverse...
...mistaken killing of up to 40 Afghan civilians by a U.S. warplane Monday is a lesson in the difficulties in rounding up the scattered remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda: The enemy has dispersed and taken shelter within the civilian population, in order to wage a guerrilla war against the U.S. and the government in Kabul. If that results in accidents in which U.S. forces kill civilians, the Taliban and al-Qaeda hope to use those incidents to build support for their cause in the local population. Thats the reason Monday's incident makes life difficult...
Your item on extracting natural gas using coal-bed methane development in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, "Rocky Mountain Deep: The Next Drilling War" [NOTEBOOK, May 20], left some mistaken impressions. The Powder River Basin is not in the Rocky Mountains but is some distance from those scenic mountain peaks. And although the basin is home to wildlife, it is not exactly "pristine," having been a major energy-producing area for more than 20 years. Also, you implied that the impacts of drilling new methane wells are uniformly negative, overlooking the benefits of the clean, nonsaline water that is pumped...