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...trickiest aspect of the Bin Laden equation may be Pakistan. Despite being a close ally of the U.S. during the Cold War, Afghanistan's nuclear-armed neighbor is also a hotbed of anti-American Islamic radicalism. Pakistan has reportedly promised full support for a U.S. retaliation against Bin Laden, including allowing Pakistani airspace to be used by U.S. planes to strike Afghanistan. But President Bush's comment that Washington would have to wait and see what that means suggests the U.S. is not sure of the extent of Pakistan's commitment to the battle against Bin Laden. But Pakistani intelligence...
...shock. People pressed mobile phones to their ears, calling loved ones (though many of the mobile networks were overloaded.) For a while, all bridges and tunnels off the island were closed, turning Manhattan into the world?s richest prison. And everyone went through a awful mental checklist; which friend, neighbor, or relative, worked in the Trade Center...
Back when I was a kid, I spent a summer picking potatoes at a neighbor's farm. Slouched up and down the rows, stooped over, dragging a burlap bag full of spuds, dust in my nostrils, body all aching and racked with pain, and it seems to me that I have been picking potatoes in one form or another ever since. The boss man, Mr. Marse, kept telling me that potato picking is a great challenge and a boon to civilization and the manly thing to do and that if I quit working, my life would lose purpose and meaning...
...their services, provided for a $40 "donation." Unlike the U.S., which spends millions every year to track down the remains of Americans lost in Vietnam, Hanoi spends nothing to find its more than 300,000 MIAS. Still, many Vietnamese maintain the hope of finally burying their loved ones. "My neighbor found her older brother this way," says Nguyen Thi Hien, 59, whose own brother vanished in 1972. "It's worth...
...reasons shied away from acknowledging this reality, but Fox's has brought it out into the open. Not only that, he is also proposing a major change in U.S. law, which is something else that Mexico has never done. It has always refrained from challenging the laws of its neighbor because it doesn't want its own laws challenged, but Fox is trying to break the mold of the traditional U.S.-Mexico relationship...