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...down the chain of Maskhadov's liaison agents. Using some of his many nicknames - including one, Big Ears, that he disliked intensely - they asked if anyone had sighted Maskhadov. Nobody had, but this didn't cause major alarm. Rumors had been flying among the guerrillas that some sort of secret negotiations with Moscow were about to take place, and they assumed he had slipped away for something connected to that. Earlier this month, though, they learned that the Russians had captured one of Maskhadov's liaison agents in Nozhai Yurt. Chechens say they believe the man had been tortured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Martyr | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

DIED. HANS BETHE, 98, last of the scientific titans who helped devise the atom bomb for the U.S. government's top-secret Manhattan Project; in Ithaca, N.Y. Before heading the theoretical-physics division at Los Alamos, the brilliant, unpretentious refugee from Nazi Germany took on an age-old mystery, the question of precisely how the sun and stars keep burning, and solved it in six weeks. Later a vocal proponent of disarmament, he criticized Ronald Reagan's Star Wars plan in the 1980s, saying, "We need to try to understand the other fellow and try to come to some agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 21, 2005 | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

YOUR REPORT "TALKING WITH THE ENEmy" described secret meetings between U.S. negotiators and Iraqi insurgents [Feb. 28]. A cease-fire would be to the advantage of the U.S. and the rebels. The U.S. could arrange to keep military bases as a guest of Iraq, as in other Middle East countries, with no involvement in its politics. The insurgents could agree to join in a democratic process that is not considered an American program. We would then be able to deal with Iran and North Korea from a position of strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 21, 2005 | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...tell TIME that just last week the FBI sent out two nationwide bulletins warning of a nonspecific threat to railroads in Detroit and Los Angeles. On her visit to Mexico last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued her own reminder of the border's vulnerability. "There's no secret," Rice told reporters, "that al-Qaeda will try to get into this country ... by any means they possibly can." --By Adam Zagorin, Timothy J. Burger and Brian Bennett

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zarqawi Planning U.S. Hit? | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

Andover junior Gabe Worgaftik has discovered the secret to getting into Harvard, and it’s not Model UN, math team, a 1600, or any permutation of said activities. It’s Spam...

Author: By David S. Marshall, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spiced Ham (And)over-Achieving College Applicants | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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