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...Report You asked "How Much Longer?" for the war in Iraq [Sept. 17]. My question is, How do you get out of quicksand when you are in it up to your waist? It doesn't take a four-star general to see that the fanatical enemy simply has to sit back and wait. When we withdraw soldiers, the counterinsurgents and terrorists can resume their attacks. We all know that there are thousands of young men who are ready to martyr themselves so they can enter paradise. And if we ever completely pull out of Iraq, corruption and civil war will...
...their piece of the action. It's forced us to say, 'Where do we go?' And we're kind of moving up," says Katz. "We've decided there's this category we've named 'high luxury.' It's even more luxurious, more unique, harder to get. We want to sit at the top of the luxury mountain," she says. "We're pushing higher, to find that even rarer...
...Sitting in her office in South Kensington, London, Mellon bristles as she recalls comments suggesting that she sit back and enjoy her wealth. "It's the absolute opposite. I'm very committed. Jimmy Choo is my baby. There's significant upside left in this business, and it would be far too soon to walk away from such an exciting challenge," she says. That upside includes a deal with Selective Beauty to roll out a Jimmy Choo fragrance. "And we've got over 60 shops and could easily double that," she adds, stretching out her spectacular legs, tipped with mules four...
...said. “Why? Because, as coaches—and I think players—we’d play the thing at 9 o’clock in the morning if they’d let us, because, you just want to play. So to have to sit and watch games on television—you don’t enjoy them—it’s agony.”The players, however, seem less worried about having to shift their game-day schedule.“I’m unbelievably excited, and I think...
...your team wins but people think it cheated, it's harder to do a victory dance around the office watercooler. But fearing the consequences of cheating is a far cry from opposing it because it's wrong. When the refs go to review a close play, fans don't sit there thinking, I hope they'll make the right call. They pray that the call goes their way. According to a 1999 study by psychologists at Murray State, a significant minority of fans--if guaranteed anonymity--would even support injuring an opposing player or coach. In 1940 the Cornell football...