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Berger and Clarke wanted something more robust. On Nov. 7, Berger met with William Cohen, then Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. The time had come, said Berger, for the Pentagon to rethink its approach to operations against bin Laden. "We've been hit many times, and we'll be hit again," Berger said. "Yet we have no option beyond cruise missiles." He wanted "boots on the ground"--U.S. special-ops forces deployed inside Afghanistan on a search-and-destroy mission targeting bin Laden. Cohen said he would look at the idea, but he and General Hugh Shelton, Chairman...
...profits grow as they have in the past, at about 7% annually, and the P/E multiple retreats to 16, the market will return zippo for five more years, except for an annual dividend of less than 2%. This assessment may prove too pessimistic. The recession depressed earnings; a robust recovery could drive them higher faster. But there's no realistic scenario in which stocks resume and sustain anything close to their '90s trajectory...
...mustard at a ballpark; or, a billion times a year, with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun. Beef is, the TV commercials say, "America's food"--the Stars and Stripes served up medium rare--and as entwined with the nation's notion of its robust frontier heritage as, well, the Marlboro...
...seems clear is that Mahathir's resignation is no publicity gambit to shore up support. Even his detractors acknowledge that. "It's definitely not a put-on job or a political gimmick," says oppositionist Lim Kit Siang. (Though Mahathir had multiple-bypass surgery a decade ago, his health is robust for a 76-year-old.) But neither, it seems, does he wish to go because he feels he has accomplished enough and that it's time for younger leaders to take over?as Lee Kuan Yew believed. Mahathir modernized the economy, enabled Malaysia to gain international respect, and gave Asia...
...Along with the wonderful Ealing comedies from Britain and the Fernandel farces from France, our local art house showed the occasional Italian comedy: "The Miller's Beautiful Wife," "Bread, Love and Dreams," later "Big Deal on Madonna Street." These were robust pieces of bustling business, full...