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...Those looking for a military victory over the Palestinian uprising got some bad news recently from Martin van Creveld, a world-renowned military historian from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose work is routinely studied in U.S. military academies. Writing in Britain's Telegraph, Van Creveld warns that the lessons of comparable situations show that Israel cannot defeat the Palestinians. Israel may have one of the world's strongest conventional fighting forces ranged against an enemy armed only with assault rifles, homemade bombs, mortars and rockets, but that asymmetry is reversed when it comes to political will, he writes...
...Even the conservative Daily Telegraph has qualms over Guantanamo. Columnist Alice Thomson agrees with shackling and even hooding and drugging the prisoners en route - "al Qaeda doesn't have a great reputation when it comes to aircraft. But I mind the shark cages, with their concrete floors open to the elements and the 24-hour halogen flood lights, left near mosquito-infested swamps, so the prisoners can catch malaria when some already have tuberculosis." She argues that this "vindictive" prison regime undermines the morality of what has been achieved in Afghanistan...
...Leaving the door ajar is one thing Greenspan has always known how to do, and anyone expecting a rate-policy telegraph Friday from the FOMC was deluding themselves. But whether it's the prospect of the end of his long tenure as Fed head - his term runs out in June 2004 - or just his place at the center of some truly historic economic times, Greenspan has become rather fond of telling the story of the last few years, and he tells it pretty lucidly for a man who spent the first ten years of his chairmanship elevating inscrutable "Fed-speak...
...KEIJI TACHIKAWA spent over 35 years at stodgy Nippon Telegraph & Telephone before his career went wild and wireless. As CEO of NTT DOCOMO, NTT's previously obscure mobile-phone wing, he has overseen the success of i-mode, the mobile Internet service that set nearly 30 million pairs of Japanese thumbs tap-tap-tapping on hand-held keypads. Tachikawa, 62, has set up partnerships with Europeans and recently bought a 16% stake in AT&T Wireless. Both moves should serve DoCoMo well in its bid to promote "3g," the ultra-speedy, new-generation service that seeks to make cell phones...
...British adventurer who has traveled the Amazon and the Blue Nile told the Daily Telegraph last Thursday that the worst trip he’s ever taken was a train ride to Liverpool. The trek took...