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...hold out until after dark, when evacuation would be possible. It was still only 7 a.m. Grippe's team spent the day fighting off Taliban and al-Qaeda incursions. "My men were whacking people from 400 to 500 meters," he said, "but there were also gunfights. We're talking nose to nose." Incessant mortar fire kept men pinned, squirming, to the ground. "With small arms, you can fight back," says Sergeant David Smith, who was hit twice. "But with mortars, you can't do anything much about it. We had to just lie on the ground and basically take...
...specter is haunting europe. An erratic foreign leader, bellicose in his rhetoric, directing a powerful army, spending freely on new weapons, is thumbing his nose at the international community and raising the chance of war in the Middle East. Step forward George W. Bush. That's how the U.S. President wants the world to see Saddam Hussein. But it's what a lot of U.S. allies are saying, or muttering, about Bush himself...
...town of Yong Jing in northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting - and unwilling - assignees to a program of re-education through...
...work six more years and then I’ll go back to the islands. I’ll not be up here with a dripping nose all winter,” he laughs...
...short answer: hang tough. Boutique investment firms catering to the wealthy offer all kinds of fancy alternatives, from timberland and drilling partnerships to market-neutral and hedge funds to buying a vineyard in Italy. But the wisest course may be to hold your nose and reinvest in private equity...