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...officially unacknowledged CIA missile strike that killed a key al-Qaeda leader on Sunday is a major tactical victory in the U.S. war on terrorism - a war whose rules and terms are quite unlike any America has ever known. Indeed, the assassination by Predator drone of Ali Qaed Sinan al-Harthi in the wilds of northern Yemen encapsulates much about the new war - one of covert actions, sometimes in murky circumstances, designed to disrupt the terrorists' efforts to regroup far from erstwhile sanctuaries in Afghanistan. And it shows the U.S. is plainly now open to assassination as a means...
...DIED. ALINA PIENKOWSKA, 50, diminutive, soft-spoken founding member of Poland's Solidarity labor union whose crucial role in the 1980 Gdansk shipyard strike began the country's successful struggle against communism; of cancer in Gdansk. The Polish government tried restricting news of the Gdansk strike by cutting off telephone lines from the yard. Pienkowska spread the word by contacting friends in Warsaw, leading to a wave of strikes across the country...
...clock, sophomore back-up tailback Ricky Williamson fumbled to halt a game-sealing drive on the Dartmouth 18-yard line. With 1:47 remaining in the game, Big Green senior quarterback Brian Mann engineered an 11-play, 82-yard drive that ended with an 11-yard strike to junior wide receiver Jay Barnard...
...likes to move the ball, hit it right in her strike zone,” Lingman said. “I didn’t move her, didn’t mix up my balls, hit it high...I wasn’t playing smart enough to get her out of her groove...
Although Southwest has a higher proportion of union members among its employees than any other major airline, the 30-year-old carrier has never suffered a layoff or strike. Unlike any other CEO in the business, Jim Parker, 55, who joined Southwest in 1986 and took over the top spot from founder Herb Kelleher last year, personally leads most negotiations from Day One. "The biggest complaint in the industry is that management doesn't listen to employees," observes Southwest pilot Brad Bartholomew. "But you can't say that at Southwest. The top guy is in the room." After sometimes acrimonious...