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...From Vietnam we learned the basic rules of the guerrilla game: that the enemy doesn?t wear a uniform, that it might be a woman or child, that the battle line is anywhere - essentially, that there are no rules - which the various insurgencies have updated by killing many more of its countrymen than they have our soldiers. But you never know who?s going to detonate himself or herself in your vicinity, so it?s simple prudence to shoot first and check for I.D. later...
...yoga certainly added an aura to the category in the new millennium. Chanel, Prada, Dior and Hugo Boss all capitalized on it a few seasons ago. Activewear has come a long way from the gym and, thanks to relaxed dress codes inaugurated by casual Fridays, it has become a uniform for more and more Americans. But it's not about cotton T shirts and sweats anymore. Today activewear can mean everything from a high performance, temperature-regulating jacket designed by a fashion star to an urban-chic hoodie created by a Hollywood hottie...
...wasn?t just the brave men and women in uniform who helped New York and America transcend the evil wrought by the enemies of freedom that day. It was also the thousands of ordinary Americans who did the extraordinary - on the streets of Lower Manhattan, in the nation?s capital and in skies over Pennsylvania...
...home. I was a detective in the narcotics division, but I'd taken the day off for the grand opening of my tattoo shop. After the second plane hit, I knew it was an attack. I drove to my precinct in Brooklyn, got dressed in my uniform, and waited for hours for a command to go down to the site...
...What Pakistan needs is compromise: between provinces, between religion and secularism, between the desire for growth and the imperative to check inflation, between us and our neighbors. But a government led by a President in a soldier's uniform has proven ill-suited to striking compromises. So we must try the alternative: a return to democracy, with its inherent horse trading, messiness, and false starts. Such a transition will not be without risk, and many Pakistanis are frightened by the potential for instability. But the alternative, a continuation of the status quo, in which our President lacks the legitimacy that...