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...aims of this campaign have been no big secret--decapitate the Taliban, eliminate al-Qaeda's terror apparatus and seize Osama bin Laden. Administration insiders call the strategy "Taliban plinking" (echoing the "tank plinking" of the Gulf War): special forces plan to pick off one individual at a time, starting with Mullah Omar and working down the command chain of Taliban leaders protecting bin Laden. The first wave of lightning special-ops strikes was, as much as anything else, a psychological weapon designed to boost American spirits and faith in the government, silence suspicions that the public might go wobbly...
...back their spending on everything from clothing to car payments. "Any stimulus package that doesn't reach these workers who are buffeted by the recent changes needs to be altered so that it does," says Jared Bernstein, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a union-backed think tank in Washington...
Start with the think tank Strategic Forecasting www.stratfor.com) based in Austin, Texas. It publishes a daily "situation report" that chronicles the previous day's events in a no-nonsense way. I always manage to find things on that list that I have missed. Like most private-analysis sites, this one charges a fee to get at the juicy stuff...
...contrast, American Apparel is thriving. With 300 workers, Charney's factory produced 5.5 million imprintable T shirts, tank tops and panties in the past year, most labeled Classic Girl or Standard American. Regional screen printers, distributors and retailers accounted for 90% of his $20 million in sales. The rest went to private-label companies...
...soldiers. A cab took me the 100 km to Kandahar, and the driver pointed out the empty spots where Taliban roadblocks had been before the bombing. Some traffic along the road flowed toward Kandahar?trucks laden with flour, rice and other food, and a single Russian-made Taliban tank?but for the most part, people were headed the other way. There were a few vehicles carrying tires and timber, and a forlorn wedding party in four cars, the still, silent bride draped in green, bound for Pakistan. And then there were the refugees: cabs, wagons and trucks loaded with whatever...