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...government is already taking quiet steps to reform the agency. INS commissioner James Ziglar, who took charge just two months ago, receives daily intelligence briefings. A rotating team of up to 1,000 INS agents works with the FBI to spot--and detain--suspects with immigration infractions. INS agents have also suddenly become sticklers for details. In January immigration officials grilled hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta at Miami International Airport after he tried to use a visitor's visa to enter the country for flight school. They waved him through after ascertaining that his proper student visa was "pending." Today, border...
...seven times as large as those of the S&P 500 over a 15-year period. Collins concluded that it's not necessarily celebrity leaders, rich executive pay, pricey technology or splashy mergers that lead to greatness. Rather, it's "Level 5 leadership." Such leaders often are "self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy." They put people in the right roles, confront unpleasant facts and transcend mere competence. "I like to think of our work as a search for timeless principles," writes Collins. --By Andrea Sachs...
...gathering darkness, we stand staring out toward Talib lines. Save for the occasional crump of a mortar or burst of tracer fire the front is quiet. Then toward 7 p.m. the evening exodus begins. Since the start of U.S. air strikes against targets in Kabul, there has been a nightly parade of vehicles from the city. On what they call the New Road, in front of the base, convoys of trucks, pickups and armored vehicles cross a low pass, their headlights visible as they head toward villages behind the Bagram front...
...army, just as on the right-wing of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet, there's a substantial body of opinion that believes the tanks and troops that spent last week deep in Palestinian territory won't halt terrorist attacks against Israelis. Under pressure from the U.S., which wants quiet in the West Bank so it can preserve some degree of cooperation from Muslim states in its Afghanistan campaign, Israel said it would pull out of the towns as soon as Arafat's security forces would agree to fill the void. But the army doesn't believe Arafat truly will...
...took the hour from 5:00 a.m. to just before 6:00 a.m. to read and to think. I try to spend an hour a day just reading and thinking when it’s quiet...