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...Terror" passé? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has started to talk more about a "global struggle against violent extremists." Terrorism experts, who for years have requested more nuanced language, are pleased. "It's a recognition that the real challenge isn't just capturing and killing the bad guys but breaking the cycle of recruitment and regeneration," says the Rand Corporation's Bruce Hoffman. "Better late than never...
...notion of battling flu doesn't make people want to join in song and sacrifice. So the challenge is to come up with a name that is more accurate than War on Terror but that doesn't sound like a graduate-level seminar. During WW II, F.D.R. asked citizens for help and was inundated with suggestions--from the "Liberty War" to "Rat Killing." Finally, he accepted that the conflict was, undeniably, another world war. Someday we may have to do the same. --By Amanda Ripley
...specters on a stick--but it's a good show. Then they come to a village where the mysteries can't be so easily explained away. Little girls vanish in the forest; trees tiptoe like goblins; a horse devours a child; a wolf can fly. In their newfound terror, the brothers learn a lesson about art and life: there are special effects--and then there is magic...
...with tendinitis in one knee, requiring a brace that she always carries in her backpack. Once, her vision faded to black, smack in the middle of a tricky tumbling run involving a back handspring and back tuck (though she kept going). None of that, however, compares to the sheer terror of getting a D, which could jeopardize her position on the team. Katie struggles at school, making mostly A's and B's, but the occasional C leaves her in constant dread. "Every time I get my report card, I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, oh my gosh,'" she says...
...call it a war, then you think of people in uniform as being the solution." RICHARD B. MYERS, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explaining why the Bush Administration is replacing the phrase "global war on terror" with "global struggle against violent extremism...