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...refused to acknowledge: we are involved in a long-term occupation of a country that detests non-Muslim occupiers. He hinted at this once, when he was reminded that he had disputed, as "wildly off the mark," Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki's prewar prediction that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed to pacify Iraq. Wolfowitz said he took "several" to mean 300,000 or more - the current coalition troop level is approaching 200,000--but, more to the point, he said he had made the comment because "our enemies in the Arab world" were suggesting that...
WAGE RAGE Even those who are lucky enough to keep their jobs are seeing their paychecks freeze or, worse yet, shrink. Why are American workers dying the death of a thousand pay cuts...
...Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963 (Little, Brown; 838 pages), historian Robert Dallek has bravely set himself the task of trying, 40 years and a thousand books after Dallas, to reassemble the pieces of the Kennedy puzzle--essentially, to bridge the considerable distance between the dark side and the somewhat tattered radiance of the myth, between the tabloid hedonist and the martyred saint. It has become a familiar problem: How to explain that the irrational, risk-taking Hefnerian who went to bed with the girlfriend of the Mafia boss of Chicago, who routinely lied about his disastrous health...
...Aceh's shores will also carry rice and other vital supplies for civilians. "I'll believe it when I see it," says one 45-year-old village leader, who is too afraid to give his name. We meet in the ramshackle sports hall of Lhokseumawe Polytechnic, where about a thousand refugees (700 of them children) from two villages near Simpang Keramhave sought shelter from a troop buildup in their area. They rely on donations begged from vehicles passing the campus gates...
...postwar Iraq situation is already turning into a religious controversy among Islamic groups. Let us not be so naive as to let evangelists take advantage of the situation. The Crusaders did enough damage more than a thousand years ago. RICHARD J. PALMER Isla Verde...