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...resistance and bloodier response. General Mike Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, alluded to this two weeks ago when he said, "We must be able to fight with the Americans, but we don't have to fight as the Americans." A Whitehall official said Jackson's remarks were the tip of an iceberg, "very, very significant. There's a lot of concern about Fallujah. The professionals are worried. That's slowed down" consideration of the Pentagon's request. British officers know the U.S. zone is a tougher neighborhood than their turf in Basra. Despite their embarrassment when pictures of British...
...Classic Hollywood,” introduced an eclecticism borne of period-specific fashion and anachronistic music that was to run throughout the remainder of the show. Elegantly clad couples in dresses and suits reminiscent of 50s-era film noir strutted to the amplified beats of Method Man and Q-Tip, the crisp purity of the lights effectively evoking what the program called the “simple, clean and classic” characteristic of Hollywood’s early films...
...HANS ISLAND Denmark and Canada exchanged words in March over this 1.3-square-kilometer scrap of Arctic wasteland between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland. Both sides are playing down the dispute, but Hans could be the tip of the iceberg: Canada will launch operation Narwhal, its largest-ever war games in the Arctic, this August as part of a long-term plan to reassert its sovereignty in the north...
...even though our basketball team was 3-17 before tip-off; even though the Bulldogs had led eventual national champion (a healthy No. 1 Connecticut) at the half in its first game of the season...
...managers in 1998 that the CIA was "at war" with bin Laden, but the word never really filtered down through the agency, much less to other arms of the intelligence community. The CIA had follow-through problems. The German government gave Langley's Counter Terror Center a tip in 1999 about a terrorist suspect named Marwan, along with a phone number in the United Arab Emirates, but the CIA was slow to run it down--and never went to overseas governments for help. Marwan turned out to be Marwan al-Shehhi, the pilot of United Airlines Flight 175, which crashed...