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Jose Guzman did the right thing. On a chilly night in the rock-and-sand wasteland of Canon de la Marrana on the Mexican border, he gave up an easy run into the U.S.--the border patrol wasn't in sight--to stay with a woman who had twisted her ankle as she took off north toward California. What really angers Guzman, as he waits for a Mexican rescue patrol to shuttle him to the nearest town, is having to make this illegal crossing in the first place. After working in a Los Angeles lumberyard for five years...
...like a monk who believes self-flagellation is the path to salvation, Blair said last week he thinks Bush is right to focus on foiling Saddam's effort to procure chemical, biological and atomic weapons. French and German officials did not go so far, but they too tried to sand down talk of transatlantic rifts...
...wounded three times. Now, as the commander in chief of Central Command, Franks is in charge of U.S. military operations for 25 nations in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East - including Afghanistan, where Franks told TIME, "we have a lot of snow or a lot of sand, and on some days we have both...
...Franks' spear is lodged in Paktia province, where lots of sand and snow as well as rain storms and fog are making air support impossible. There are also plenty of what Franks calls "bad guys" who have nothing left to lose. Eight U.S. soldiers have been killed this past week in vicious firefights, some 70 others wounded; America has been reminded that war, besides being hell, is war, and when you put boots on the ground some of them are not going to walk away...
...ceremony of hope" and ask the partners to offer apologies to each other and seek forgiveness for the hurt they have inflicted. "The church is always present during a death, but here we are with a divorce, an overwhelmingly painful thing, and the church hides its head in the sand," says the Rev. Jeanne Audrey Powers, 69, a retired Methodist minister who co-wrote a paper in 1976 examining Christian divorce rituals...