Word: planners
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Beneath the Administration's confidence that a war with Iraq can be won quickly with limited U.S. casualties lurks an anxiety about the catastrophic events an invasion might trigger. "We can overthrow Saddam Hussein, no doubt about it," says a Central Command planner. "The question is, Can we do it and keep his weapons of mass destruction bottled up at the same time?" The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no. "If they come," said Uday Hussein last week, "Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic...
...were waiting for him in a car outside Karachi's Metropole Hotel. Three were given life sentences. Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, 29, a smooth-talking, British-educated Islamic militant who had served jail time in India for kidnapping Western tourists, received the death sentence for acting as the master planner of Pearl's abduction and killing...
...last night’s meeting was free of unexpected developments, as Kathy A. Spiegelman, the University’s chief planner, outlined development priorities including state-of-the-art science facilities, increased housing for graduate students and faculty and more space for cultural organizations...
...police tracked down Samudra and nabbed two of his bodyguards. They said their boss planned to board a bus about to leave on a ferry to Pekanbaru, on the island of Sumatra. Two policemen arrested Samudra. Indonesian police say he later confessed to being the chief planner of the Bali bombings and to a string of unsolved crimes. Samudra, according to police sources, said one of the bombs that exploded in Kuta was, as he put it, a "martyr bomb," carried by a man known as Iqbal. If that proves true, Kuta would be the first known suicide bombing...
Between working as an urban planner for the city of Vancouver and starting the city planning doctoral program at MIT, Goelman took a few months off to concentrate on his writing. “Eventually, I’d like to have time to research and teach and have time for the creative side,” says Goelman, who says he currently has very little time to write...