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American commanders were determined to stop them. With control of the country wrested from the Taliban, the full wrath of American military power turned toward the sprawling Tora Bora fortress in the eastern ridges of Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda fighters still huddling inside their caves have little chance of getting out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Round-Up: Into the Caves | 12/9/2001 | See Source »

The sudden rollback of the Taliban vindicated the Pentagon's faith in air power. Just weeks ago, with the rebels bogged down in the north and Taliban forces cockily daring the U.S. to try to hit them, American strategists warned of a lengthy war and said a large percentage of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt for bin Laden | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

That's why the American targeting of Atef also served to deliver a pointed message to his boss. As American commandos did in northern Afghanistan, U.S. special ops in the south provided Pashtun tribes with advice, ammunition and weapons. But the immediate goal was to divine bin Laden's location...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt for bin Laden | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

No kidding. In her 23-film career?one of the rare Hong Kong actresses whose age, 31, exceeds the number of her movies?she has uglied-up, gotten disfigured, played a schizophrenic, a tomboy, a killer, a lesbian, and the plain old-fashioned bitch. In First Love: The Litter on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mok-A-Bye Baby | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

Lehigh’s lack of execution and precision allowed the game to slip out of its hands.

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prasse-Freeman Nets Last-Second Win for Crimson | 11/25/2001 | See Source »

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