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...RAMSI is staffed by people from 14 nations in the South Pacific?as Batley, an Australian diplomat, stresses tirelessly. But there's no doubt that the mission is an Australian initiative. Without Canberra's dollars, troops and expertise, RAMSI would not exist. Having committed so much, Australia cannot pull out. It must stay until the work is done. Nor did it underestimate the task; in fact, six months before the July 2003 deployment, Downer saw intervention as "folly in the extreme." "The fundamental problem," he wrote in the Australian, "is that foreigners do not have answers for the deep-seated...
...There Any Hope of Defeating Arnold? Democrat Phil Angelides is way behind the California governor. Here are four keys to how he could (but probably won't) pull off a last-minute surprise
...user- friendly caps. Cali fornia's Domaine Chandon puts crown caps on étoile, its top-of-the-line cuvée. Meanwhile, Sofia Blanc de Blancs, the sparkling wine that filmmaker turned winemaker Francis Coppola created for his daughter's wedding, now also comes in magenta Mini cans with pull-tab tops...
...from $50,000 to $3 million since the company was started in 1998. And it's not just candy. With the power of the Internet, other purveyors of childhood memories are resurrecting '50s-era toys and games, including wooden alphabet blocks with old-fashioned lettering and Fisher-Price Snoopy pull toys. They're also experiencing a surge in demand for best sellers from the 1940s like Slinkys, Nok Hockey and Uncle Wiggily. "The pendulum has swung back to these classic playthings," says Ken Moe, managing director of Back to Basics Toys, a company based in Herndon, Va., that specializes...
...tossed and turned in the early hours of Independence Day, the simple truth of the psychologist's words hit me. It was true: I was mad at myself for failing to pull off a clean sweep. And it was that anger that was preventing me from savoring the achievement of a lifetime: saving my own skin and that of three others. My failure to get rid of the grenade before it exploded was only the first in a long list of wrongs I would have to pardon before I could finally put the ordeal behind...