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Widowed 17 years ago, when her only child was still an infant, Khatol (women in her tribe prefer to use only their first name) was among those hardest hit by the Taliban's ban on women's employment. Although she is better educated than most Afghan women--as few as 5.6% are literate--Khatol's options under the fundamentalist regime became as narrow as those for many of Kabul's 30,000-plus other war widows. The Taliban's restrictions on its female population were infamously harsh: girls could not attend school; and women, except for some doctors and nurses...
...they are unabashed vultures, Texas Pacific's partners get high grades from airline insiders for their knowledge of the industry and their eye for executive talent. Before any major investment, they walk the halls of the business, checking out employee morale and even the photos on executives' walls. (They prefer folks--like US Airways' Siegel--who show off their families rather than their handshakes with politicians...
...shortly after turning 30. At the time he was the financial director of a pharmaceutical firm in Rio de Janeiro, and Suzana, then 27, was working as a designer and interior decorator. One day Claudio arrived home and announced that he wanted to work with nature. "Would you prefer a husband who's rich and miserable," he asked Suzana, "or one who's poor but happy...
...Rather than accelerating the action to catch up with the rhetoric, though, Scowcroft and others would prefer to tone down the rhetoric. Eagleburger suggested last week that Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz were maneuvering to commit the administration to attack Iraq simply to finish what was started in the Gulf War. But Perle and Wolfowitz are not mere loose cannons; they are seen in Washington as the spokesmen of the hawkish element in the Bush administration whose number is thought to include Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney...
...course, Saddam is a menace to the region and beyond. Of course, he is grimly building weapons of mass destruction. And the Europeans know it. But they prefer an Iraq that is both contained and constrained to an America on the loose. They haven't even made up their mind what is worse: an America that won't put its troops where its mouth is, or a truly imperial one that reorders the Middle East in its own image. But if the U.S. doesn't know what it is doing, why should the Europeans...