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...prizefighter. When he met TIME correspondents in his Islamabad salon recently, Musharraf strode across an ornate Persian carpet clutching a memo with the names of 30 al-Qaeda suspects whom Pakistan has helped to nab over the past two months. This, said Musharraf, was Osama bin Laden's "second string" of terrorists: "We know who is whom and who is where. We've broken their backs." He claimed that a lode of al-Qaeda computer disks captured in July showed that the group's leaders have contingency plans to shift operations away from the hinterlands of Pakistan to Somalia...
Your personal-debt problems may soon worsen. The folks at Economy.com expect the Federal Reserve's string of interest-rate hikes to affect the interest rates you pay on your credit card sometime in the first half of next year, according to Scott Hoyt, the site's director of consumer economics. The key to feeling as little pain as possible is using the next six to nine months to pay down your debt smartly. In my new book, Pay It Down! From Debt to Wealth on $10 a Day (Portfolio), I discuss strategies to do just that. For instance...
Bush has always played in the shadows of expectation--holding back and letting people's misimpressions grow and then coming forward to surprise them. The next few weeks will show whether he has run out that string. Wavering voters who were surprised by how his presidency has unfolded want to know what the next term may bring. To the extent that voters say they are putting pocketbook issues ahead of security concerns for now, he will have to show that he understands where they are. But there is little doubt about where Bush is. In a second term he will...
...found a string of failures ... fundamental failures throughout all levels of command, from the soldiers on the ground to the Central Command and to the Pentagon." TILLIE FOWLER, a member of James Schlesinger's panel investigating the prison abuses in Iraq...
...legends from King Curtis to Bruce Springsteen sideman Clarence Clemons; in Deland, Fla. In the 1950s he led the house band at boxer Sugar Ray Robinson's New York City lounge and went on rock-'n'-roll tours with Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis. He also released a string of hit singles, including Hard Times (the Slop...