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...after ballooning to a reported 337 pounds, it's clear Sir Charles may have also helped make Michael Jordan's Steakhouse a success. Barkley toyed with the idea of making his own comeback with the Wizards, but it was too long of a road to get back into playing shape, and, unlike Jordan, Barkley did not retire at the top of his game. So Charles is going to have to find himself another filthy rich former athlete to tee off with...
President Bush sounded the battle call last week for a war to be waged on a thousand fronts. The sprawling investigation now under way will help the White House shape a response: not only an attack of retribution against those who plotted this massacre but also a long line of moves designed to forestall future attacks. "This is a conflict without battlefields or beachheads, a conflict with opponents who believe they are invisible. Yet they are mistaken. They will be exposed," the President said last Saturday. "We will smoke them out of their holes." Secretary of State Colin Powell spread...
...such a campaign would amount to a third World War. In the short term, any military operations will be more limited in scope. As suspicion hardened in Washington that al-Qaeda ("the base"), the network of terrorists associated with bin Laden, was behind the attacks, plans began to take shape for action against its camps in Afghanistan. At the Pentagon, and at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., home of U.S. Central Command, officers dusted off the options for attacking bin Laden that were first prepared after al-Qaeda operatives bombed American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania three years...
...midst of his own grief, Clifford found the number of Maffeo's boss and called to say she was alive but in very bad shape. Her boss then contacted the family, who eventually found her in critical condition at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, burned over so much of her body that the doctors required the family to put on scrubs before seeing her. When they were finally reunited, Maffeo insisted that they track down the man who saved...
Like all great critics of capitalism, he is a dedicated materialist—dedicated, that is, to the joy of the material world. He takes immense pleasure in the shape, texture, taste, smell and mere existence of things. Nowhere is Fo more at home than in his exuberant account of the physical world. So deep is his love for all things physical that the idea of property seems repulsive—simply to experience the world should be joy enough...