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...Honestly, once we get out of conference, the level of competition is just as tough or sometimes tougher,” senior thrower BreeAnna Gibson said...
...Gaza, when a cell is decapitated, fresh leaders are ready to spring into place. "Even if Sheik Yassin got killed," a Hamas activist told me last month, "Hamas is a big organization now and even he can be replaced. When a leader is killed, it makes us all tougher and ready to pass the torch to fresh fighters." Brigadier General Yossi Kupperwasser, head of research and intelligence for the I.D.F., agrees the group is impossible to contain. "Say they have 150 in the West Bank today involved in terror," he says. "Even if we kill the ones we know about...
BUZZ Bob Woodward took a first look at the inner workings of the Bush Administration following 9/11 in Bush at War. Some thought he was too kind. Will his second, Plan of Attack, due out in April, be tougher...
What de Marneffe largely omits is the sense of pride and meaning that women often gain from their work. Women who step out of their careers can find the loss of identity even tougher than the loss of income. "I don't regret leaving, but a huge part of me is gone," says Bronwyn Towle, 41, who surrendered a demanding job as a Washington lobbyist to be with her two sons. Now when she joins her husband Raymond, who works at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at work-related dinners, she feels sidelined. "Everyone will be talking about what they...
...fight? The tough stance on Microsoft marks a rebound after some big setbacks in 2002, when the European Court of First Instance threw out three antitrust rulings in succession. Monti countered by reorganizing the competition directorate, bringing in a new chief of staff and chief economist and insisting on tougher internal scrutiny before issuing decisions. In the Microsoft case, a special peer review panel was set up to play devil's advocate, picking holes in the arguments, before Monti was satisfied he could win. Still, Microsoft is almost certain to file an appeal in the European courts, which could drag...