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...tent in a nearby camp, a baby-faced recruit helped Gunnery Sergeant John Bass install power and a light. "Good job," Bass told his young charge. "You're a man waiting to happen." In the coming days, boys on both sides of the border are likely to become men in an instant. --With reporting by Jim Lacey and Alex Perry/south of the Iraqi border
...matter how operational bin Laden's organization might still be, it would struggle to recruit more members or provoke more rebellion. With the charismatic leader in shackles, the entire organization would suffer paralysis. His arrest might result in more hatred of the U.S. But without a leader as charismatic and appealing as bin Laden, his followers would not be able to utilize that anger...
...question is whether bin Laden's al-Qaeda would be able to utilize the occasion to revive itself, rally more people behind it and recruit more suicide bombers. Or perhaps we would find that al-Qaeda, as some already suspect, is more of a phenomenon than an organization. In that case, bin Laden's fate as a martyr might still pave the way for more terrorist attacks against Western targets across the world, exactly what the U.S. has been trying to avert. When President Bush announced in September 2001 that he wanted bin Laden captured, "dead or alive...
...critic estimates that some 3 million pirated VCDs of her performances have been sold in Indonesia. Muslim clerics denounce her bump-and-grind dancing, attempt to ban her concerts, even pray for rain to keep impressionable fans away from her shows, yet politicians are lining up to recruit her support for the 2004 elections. She's become the live wire connecting Indonesia's still nascent freedom of expression with the country's entrenched?and often hypocritical?moral majority, yet her popularity just keeps surging. "She's the one and only one who can survive [in the country's cutthroat music...
...losing a large portion of its offense to graduation, the Crimson also saw the departure of three other top assistants, including offensive coordinator Jay Mills, formerly the senior assistant on the staff. Then, on Feb. 14, the program was again shaken by the news that Darren Gallup, a recruit from the Belmont Hill School, had died in a car accident...