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...Rumsfeld told reporters that "it will not be an antiseptic war, I regret to say. It will be difficult. It will be dangerous. The likelihood is that more people may be lost." Armchair generals filled the airwaves with frets about the coming quagmire, pointing out that Afghanistan's forbidding terrain and wily guerrillas had sent two great powers packing in the past. This war, everyone said, would not be won easily...
...dewy blond or a postadolescent waif, so Carla Cook would seem to be facing a rocky path across the current jazz terrain. But she can sing--really sing. Situating her gospel-tinted voice in a propulsive rhythmic groove, she proceeds to bend the blues, rehabilitate some standards (by Simon and Garfunkel as well as by Duke Ellington) and scamper through a couple of her own intriguing compositions. Simply Natural may fall an inch short of her spectacular last CD, Dem Bones, but that's no insult. Cook can cook. --By Daniel Okrent
...than when I see it with an Iranian public, when there is so much tension and dissatisfaction." New York would have been a particularly satisfying venue. It's too bad Kiarostami couldn't get a ticket. Q&A: 'Difficulties give me energy. The best buildings are those on difficult terrain.' TIME: Do you agree that the censorship imposed by the regime has encouraged creativity in Iran by forcing artists to find new ways to express themselves? Kiarostami: For me, this has been true. I've lived through difficult times and faced difficult situations. When I encounter difficulties it gives...
...late 1990s al-Faruq slipped into Indonesia to take control of al-Qaeda's operations in Southeast Asia. Across a belt of territory stretching from Myanmar (formerly Burma) to eastern Indonesia, radical Islam was on the rise, with militants occupying swaths of the region's steamy jungle terrain. In Indonesia the fall of the dictator Suharto in 1998 left the world's most populous Islamic country in a state of turmoil and turned it into a fertile breeding ground for potential al-Qaeda terrorists. Al-Faruq married Mira, the daughter of a former Islamic activist, and linked up with...
...captains--must often make life-and-death decisions. These choices come fast and furious when you're fighting downtown: 90% of the targets are less than 50 yards away and seen for only seconds. Killing innocent civilians--or your own men--is a risk that goes with the terrain. A quarter of all explosive rounds turn into duds when they glance off walls and roofs. Helicopters can get tangled in overhead wires and crash. And America's most promising gizmos--robots that can crawl from building to building, miniature drones that can spy around corners, acoustic sensors capable of taking...