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Keith chokes up when asked how he copes with the unrelenting state of not knowing. "Until Matt walks off the plane--or they carry him off--we will believe and have faith that Matt is alive," he says. Some days are tougher than others. "I'm almost certain that it's a test from God and that God is not going give you more than you can bear," he says. "But it's getting pretty heavy." He takes solace in the simple things. "Each time when it seems to be getting unbearable, something happens to lift the weight...
...fact that the North pursued its weapons program in secret even when it was committed to a deal with the Clinton administration as evidence that Kim Jong-Il is engaged in a game of deception designed to buy time, win concessions and go nuclear anyway. The hardliners have a tougher time, however, selling their own remedy, which involves tightening the economic noose around North Korea in the hope of forcing the collapse of its regime. Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld noted Thursday that "I don't think that anyone would characterize the leadership in that country as being restrained," which would...
...cannot coexist in a single strategy for very long. The hawks are not unaware of this, of course, they simply believe it's naive to trust any agreement with the Iranians to refrain from doing a North Korea - and advocate diplomacy largely as an exercise in building support for tougher action...
Coming off a dismal offensive performance against Columbia, Harvard will face an even tougher test against Princeton and Penn, as the two teams are first and second in the league in scoring defense...
...British Army, where their martial skills are prized only slightly more than their rugby talent. Two hundred of them are in Iraq; one was killed there last year. But Romanu Naceva, head of the British Ex-Servicemen and Family Association of Fiji, says entry tests are getting tougher: "Most of our sons who would like to join can't meet the standard, so they are looking for other employment." Men who join Fiji's 3,000-strong military can double their meager salaries by serving with U.N. peacekeeping missions abroad. Some 600 are currently doing so, 134 of them...