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Emmott, who has edited the London-based news magazine since 1993, said America is not a power “in the driver’s seat,” but rather an “elder brother,” whom other countries resent at times but ultimately trust...
...scrambling retreat of soldiers after Operation Desert Storm is anything to go by, no civilian is going to jeopardize his life. "Everyone will get into a car, pack their TV, gold, clothes and dollars and drive away to the border," Ahmed, a Baghdad businessman says laughing. Iraqis might resent the American intervention - and they do - but there is no great love for Saddam Hussein either. If it looks as though the regime might topple, they will quickly back an alternative. But unless a change in leadership is assured, they will not risk the wrath of their ruler...
...parties in this year's elections demonstrates that the era when the highest position most African American candidates could hope for was to represent a majority-black congressional district or become mayor of mostly black city is nearly behind us. It makes no sense for established black leaders to resent the young for positioning themselves to surpass their elders. It's called progress. Ford is not trying to become a leader of black America. He is trying to be the next U.S. Senator from Tennessee in 2006 and maybe even run for President someday. That means being able...
...That's a wise philosophy considering how high the stakes are. Being the first mover in any new technology is a huge risk, especially within an industry where consumers have come to resent being promised so much yet receiving so little (WAP, anyone?) But Hutchison has decided the potential benefits, which could be vast, outweigh the risks, no matter how daunting. As a new entrant without any legacy network to upgrade, 3 is hoping to leapfrog the competition and establish an important early foothold in the telecom standard for the future?a future in which slower rivals are stuck with...
From the start, the U.S. never had much interest in maintaining a large presence in Afghanistan. The longer the U.S. stays, propping up embattled President Hamid Karzai while continuing to stage the dangerously scattershot hunt for bin Laden, the more Afghans will grow to resent the Americans. But with reconstruction efforts stalled and various warlords stirring up opposition to the Kabul government, the alternative is a return to chaos. And so in recent weeks the U.S. military has assumed the kind of peacekeeping duties that the Bush Administration has sought to hand off to the 5,000-person International Security...