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Last week was the deadliest one for U.S. soldiers since this war began. We know this because the headlines told us of the seven Marines who died when their KC-130 Hercules slammed into a mountain in Pakistan. But we know more than this...
...Mayor Rudy Giuliani has stood out as the representative of the U.S. and of Americans for all the world to admire." BARRY O'BRIEN Iron Mountain, Mich...
...dismayed by Krauthammer's triumphalist rhetoric, which at times approached jingoism. Such language can only fuel the still smoldering fires of hatred of the U.S. Our bombs have changed no one's world view but our own. The Taliban soldiers who switched sides will again disappear into the mountains. The Arab street is quiet only because those who filled it a few weeks ago are home nursing their wounds. For a small but important minority of the Islamic world, America will always be the Great Satan. Afghanistan was not the end but the beginning. We are going to have...
...drinking--some pretty strange stuff these days. Too harried for sit-down meals or pressed to shed pounds or just carried away with the idea of a healthy snack, they're gobbling up by the millions what was once an esoteric favorite of long- distance bicycle racers, marathoners and mountain climbers: so-called energy, protein or diet bars. Even more surprising is their infatuation with flavored concoctions known variously as designer, health or fitness waters. Imaginatively bottled and labeled (Smartwater, Lizard Lightning, Magic Recovery) and laced with every sort of nutritional supplement imaginable, they're fast crowding such standbys...
...That flair led Watkins last summer to conclude there was something rotten at Enron. The numbers didn't add up. A pair of letters that she wrote to Chairman Kenneth Lay exposed top officials--perhaps including Lay himself--who for months had been trying to hide a mountain of debt, and started a chain reaction of events that brought down the company. Watkins' letters, along with thousands of other documents, are now in the hands of congressional and criminal investigators who are probing how Enron, its pet-rock auditors at Andersen and a host of other supporting actors allowed...