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...chief complaints leveled at Rumsfeld and the Pentagon's strategists is that they failed to predict or prepare for the Taliban's ability to withstand an aerial assault. Western and Pakistani military officials openly hint that an American ground force may be required to remove the Taliban and install a successor government. Military commanders are exploring the idea of grabbing territory inside Afghanistan to use as a staging area for hit-and-run attacks against al-Qaeda. Seizing and holding an airstrip would involve as many as 15,000 troops, and there's little chance of inserting them before spring...
...delay will allow the Taliban to reveal their positions in Kabul and restore their morale. Time, in other words, is running out. Ramadan is less than a month away, and more importantly, so is winter, when military operations are severely hampered. Some commanders, when pushed - Azimi, for example - still predict an advance on Kabul in the next week or so. But, they sound neither convinced nor convincing. Alliance political leaders meanwhile deny any external interference in their planning. "The decision to attack will be ours alone," said Kanuni. The criteria on which they will base this decision, however, are becoming...
...generals had no plans to use their considerable stores of anthrax - for the simple reason that nuclear and chemical warheads were more reliable weapons of mass destruction. "Bioweapons could kill hundreds of thousands or no one at all, depending on the weather and other factors that are hard to predict," writes commentator Pavel Felgenhauer. Still, he adds, "The inaccuracy and unpredictability of bioweapons makes them the perfect terrorist weapon that may kill few, but is guaranteed to terrify...
...around the water cooler feeling chipper. Many employees view defined-contribution plans as just another corporate cutback dressed up as employee empowerment. To some degree, they're right. Theoretically at least, companies can--by paying a fixed amount each year instead of a percentage of ever rising premiums--better predict and control the price of health care, leaving workers to pick up the rest...
...predict this pattern will stop. In an offensive shootout, led by Neil Rose for Harvard and Gavin Hoffman for Penn, the Quakers have the advantage. Right now, Penn has the higher-rated defense. But by the time the squad rolls into Cambridge in November, Penn will have faced some of the tougher teams in the league. Barring any new injuries, the Crimson ought to be in better shape. For once, Harvard ought to escape with a last-second victory...