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...their target. Abu Ammar, a 30-year-old Pakistani veteran of the Afghan war?his face is scarred from shrapnel and his right hand is mangled?knelt and touched his forehead to the floor in prayer. "I have learned that whenever you succeed in your mission, just bow down, thank God and hail his greatness," he said. After a three-hour gun battle at the airport's perimeter, all six of Abu Ammar's men were dead, along with four policemen. (Two civilians were killed and 12 injured...
...surrounded by his team of high-powered imagemakers, the professionals charged with persuading voters that the former general's reputation as a dangerous maverick is undeserved. At the end of the meeting to discuss his speaking schedule, Sharon raised his bulky frame and addressed his handlers. "I have to thank you all for making me look like such a very nice guy," he said. Then he raised his finger: "But I warn you that with one sentence I can undo it all." The spin doctors laughed in loud, nervous guffaws. They knew it was true...
...knock Jackson, who was a 56-year-old father of five when the baby was conceived, off the moral high horse from which he has preached to inner-city youngsters about the threats posed by aids, drugs and unwed pregnancy. It's time to give him another gold Rolex, thank him for his service and send him out to pasture...
Meanwhile, the twins are in their fourth home in six months. "Thank goodness they have each other, but you can be pretty certain they haven't had any sense of calm continuity in their lives," says Gill Haworth, Director of the Overseas Adoption Helpline in London. "It hasn't got them off to the best start." Their trauma isn't over either. If the Kilshaws' adoption is judged invalid, the children could be returned to their mother, who despite her fickle actions and possible perjury may yet enjoy the law's preference for keeping kids with their birth parents...
...celebration, as hundreds of cheering staffers crammed into the lobby area to welcome the new boss. Thursday, he got a standing ovation at a "town meeting" for employees beamed to embassies around the world. African-American employees seemed especially struck. One told Powell simply, "I would just like to thank you for stepping up to the plate...