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...notes a certain irony in the fact that first amendment rights are most limited when they are most necessary.) His arguments against our military intervention in Afghanistan appeal both to our practical sense—the idea that our “war on terrorism” did not succeed in any of its stated goals—and to our moral character—that Afghan civilian deaths have been called “collateral damage,” the same term used by Timothy McVeigh to describe children who died in the Oklahoma City bombings...
...there were a prize for Most Unlikely to Succeed in Sport at Salt Lake, Isaac Menyoli would be a front-runner. The 29-year-old cross-country skier from Cameroon is his nation's first-ever Winter Games representative. He hits the trails in Salt Lake with a mission in mind: to draw attention to the need for AIDS education in his homeland. He spoke with TIME's Jeff Chu last week from his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Excerpts...
TIME: Can an outsider succeed in French politics? BLANC: Perhaps the French are ready for a new face, different messages - and a liberal from the left...
...That sight, and that summit, draw more than 15,000 climbers a year to Tanzania. Kilimanjaro is one of the world?s highest readily climbable mountains - all that is required to climb ?Kili,? as it is affectionately known, is a decent level of fitness and an iron will to succeed. Unlike most other tall mountains, Kilimanjaro is not part of a chain. The dormant volcano's massive bulk rises in solitary grace out of the East African savanna, just 200 miles south of the equator. It stands 19,340 feet above sea level, shorter than the towering peaks...
...absence of a strategy on either side capable of stabilizing the situation. Israel's blockades, air strikes, assassinations and mini-invasions of Palestinian-controlled towns has not stopped a steady stream of gunmen and suicide bombers. There's little reason to believe that more of the same will succeed. But reoccupying the West Bank and Gaza urban centers remains exceedingly risky for the Israelis, both politically and militarily, and they're more likely to maintain the current pattern of moving troops in with heavy air- and armored support to do house-to-house searches, make arrests, and then withdrawing...