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...steers through the smoke, red tracers streak through the air and bounce along the ground. RPGs fly from both sides of the road, and AK-47 fire crackles. Rapicault's gunner returns fire with the mounted .50-cal. machine gun; his counterparts in other vehicles do likewise. The convoy U-turns en masse, back to Michigan, then back to sanctuary in the government center. No one is injured. One humvee has a flat tire, and another has been hit with two RPGS, which were deflected by the armor. A Marine says his crew saw an RPG team running down...
Driving France's effort to shore up its second-place ranking among the world's destinations for foreign investment is Gaymard, 44, France's ambassador for international investment. Despite E.U. integration and strained Franco-U.S. relations, Gaymard stresses, the U.S. remains "our biggest market, our first market"; U.S. investment rose 12% in 2003. Besides managing her career and her family life--with eight children and a husband, Agriculture Minister Hervé Gaymard--she recently published a novel. --By William...
...rivalry is definitely something you hear about in Washington,” Buckland said. “In polls we [U. of Washington] were No. 2 and Harvard was No. 1. It came...
...considering the damage from some of the previous Harvard-Yale tailgates to the intramural fields, Ohiri might not be in the best of playing conditions for either of the soccer teams after a few thousand students tramp around on it for 10 hours—even if U-Hauls and kegs aren’t allowed on the field...
...Without a breakthrough, it's likely the IAEA will refer Iran next month to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. Some diplomats are worried about what they call their nightmare scenario: an air strike by Israel against Iran's nuclear facilities, to which Washington would acquiesce, inflaming anti-U.S. feeling among Muslims. Says a British official: "There's worry that a crisis is looming." On that grim prospect there is also wide agreement...