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...Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said Wednesday that the campaign would combine military, political, intelligence and diplomatic initiatives to "drain the swamp they live in." And that's a sound principle of counterinsurgency, which recognizes that the resilience of an unconventional enemy derives from the support and succor he procures from his environment. Terrorist groups such as Bin Laden will seek out the most supportive environment for their sanctuaries; isolating and destroying them requires turning their environment against them...
...said that every problem carries with it the seeds of its solution, and so it is with rentapriest.com, a free service that matches Catholics looking for spiritual succor the Church can't provide with former Catholic clerics who have left the Church but can still perform its ceremonies. It all begins with a shortage of priests. Throughout the United States, the Catholic Church is facing an epic paucity of clergy; currently, pulpits in more than 5,300 parishes stand empty, and declining numbers of new priests indicate the situation may get worse. Meanwhile, according to recent figures, more than...
...Putin is not alone in thinking the Americans have given Albanian terrorists too much succor. But across the international community there was general agreement on the best holding pattern: keep arms and men from Kosovo out of Macedonia, back the Macedonian government in its fight against the insurgents, and hope the government wins...
...brutal truth is that the Oscar is a glittering prize that supplies succor and nourishment all the way to Monday morning. And then it's back to "What have you done lately?" Of course the tag is with you forever but no one in this short-attention-span town remembers your résumé. They remember that you gave great "headers." "Headers" are the snappy soundbites by which you cement your relationships (I use the word loosely) in a crowded party...
...Sixth Sense or the spiritual-supernatural drama Touched by an Angel, but the departed are no longer taking death lying down. And the spirits of TV present are no longer mere bogeymen or punch lines. They're, well, spiritual spirits: kindly characters, cast in emotional plots, who succor more than scare...