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...Peacekeeping in Iraq could be even tougher. Like Afghanistan, Iraq is divided along ethnic and tribal lines, and fear of its potential breakup as a state was one reason that restrained the first Bush administration from going all the way in 1991. Like Afghanistan, its internal divisions are of direct national security concern to its neighbors, particularly Turkey and Iran. And its Arab neighbors to the west are reluctant to see any weakening in the power of a state long regarded as the Arab world's bulwark against the geopolitical ambitions of Iran's revolutionary Shiites. But unlike Afghanistan, Iraq...
Senate Democrats have begun pondering even tougher provisions, such as imposing criminal penalties for securities fraud now treated as a civil offense. And it seems a good bet that the Senate bill will prevail in conference over a weaker measure that the Republican-led House passed in April. The latest scandal has also breathed new life into legislation that would protect worker retirement accounts and change the way corporations report stock options...
...hump into two pieces and roast one in a Dutch oven set on the bottom of the fire and skewer the other on a metal pole laid over the fire. Both techniques produce a dry version of buffalo, which tastes a whole lot like beef, if a tiny bit tougher and leaner. It would be much better grilled, but it is still pretty good. It also might be better if Leandra hadn't insisted on putting a pile of dried buffalo dung into the fire right under...
...grown tougher, and together: If you were a terrorist, would you choose this moment to attack? Probably not - while the streets will be filled by swarms of Americans celebrating a holiday the terrorists hate, any evil-doer with half a brain would be deterred by the past week's massive mobilization of police and military personnel. New York, Washington and other potential hotspots will be jammed to bursting with law enforcement; on the Mall in D.C. alone there will be 2,000 security workers...
...consolidating a debt-ridden, fragmented European cable industry worth $70 billion, he thinks he can achieve the economies of scale in programming, equipment and marketing that helped turn TCI into such a titan. But he faces a much tougher task on a continent that, despite its efforts at economic union, confronts any newcomer with a thicket of regulatory and cultural barriers. "Malone has been getting an education in Europe," notes Tom Crema, a partner in Compere Associates, the London investment firm that is bidding for some of the same German cable assets that Malone failed to win earlier this year...