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...You’ll slip on some money
When some 2,000 al-Qaeda fighters appeared to slip the dragnet at Tora Bora last December, the American forces learned a valuable lesson: If you want to get things done in Afghanistan, do them yourself. That's why when it traced a group of some 500 suspected bin Laden loyalists to a cave network in the Shahi Kot mountain range in Paktia province, the U.S. last weekend sent 1,000 of its own men - together with 200 special forces troops from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark and Norway - to take a leading role in the ground offensive. Although...
...will be a total of three items. A group of heirlooms might include Mom's old chifforobe, Dad's tools and an old photo album--as long as the heirs agree that they would be satisfied with whichever item they end up with. The item is written on a slip of paper and tossed into a hat. Each person then chooses a slip of paper, "winning" the designated item--which can then be traded for another if someone else will swap. Heirs are free to say no to trades by agreeing in advance that they will accept whatever they have...
...secret document entitled 'Jihad War in Southeast Asia' outlined a plan to blow up the U.S. embassies in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore on Dec. 4. This screed fell into the hands of Indonesian police and surfaced in January as an exclusive for Singapore's Straits Times. A costly slip by the evildoers, it would seem. But why would the authors, purportedly from the radical Jemaah Islamiah organization, include their names and addresses? And if the document was so secret, why would those authors translate the original from Arabic into Jawi, a rare form of Indonesian readable only by linguists...
...allow Tom.com to butt heads with much bigger rivals. Li's principal advantage is his ability to make nice with the Chinese government in ways that AOL Time Warner and News Corp., purveyors of Western programming and news that does not match Beijing's worldview, cannot. Li will never slip up as Murdoch, the News Corp. chairman, did in 1993 when he declared in a speech that foreign media have the power to topple totalitarian regimes everywhere?a statement that got him temporarily banned from conducting business in China. Conversely, Li's easy rapport with Beijing's Elite, as well...