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...altar of the road map." Gissin maintains that Sharon's revulsion to terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians dates from the 1950s, when there were frequent lethal penetrations of Israel from the West Bank, then controlled by Jordan. Sharon, a young army officer, took command of Unit 101, a counterterrorism outfit that launched reprisal attacks on Palestinian villages there. In 1953 one such attack on the village of Qibya led to the deaths of 69 people, half of them women and children, and provoked widespread international condemnation...
...workaholic who sleeps three hours a night, Dichter, 50, who is married and has three children, headed the Shin Bet's Gaza operations before he was chosen in 1995 to rebuild the organization's VIPprotection unit following the lapses that enabled an assassin to kill Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that year. Dichter was promoted to the top job in 2000 by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. When the intifadeh broke out five months into Dichter's five-year term, he initiated a string of high-profile counteroperations that impressed Sharon even before he became Prime Minister. To kill Hamas operatives...
...million Penalties levied against Guidant's Endovascular Technologies unit for hiding flaws in a device it makes to treat weak arteries without surgery; it's largest ever for a medical-technology firm...
...bidding for government contracts. Instead, they're getting their gear into military exchanges and booking sales to individual troops who want the equipment and pay for it out of their pockets. Army soldiers and Marines, for instance, are allowed to buy a handheld global positioning system, or GPS, unit (shown above) or sweat-wicking T shirts to wear under their fatigues...
...willing to share his austerely bohemian life, she married him in 1936. She also joined Orwell in his formative experience, the Spanish Civil War. He went to write articles about the Republican cause, she to help edit a workers' party newspaper. He soon joined the party's fighting unit and saw some action, though he couldn't bring himself to shoot a fascist soldier running from a latrine with his pants down. Standing one day in the trenches built for shorter Spaniards, he was shot through the throat. As he recovered, the Soviets were double-crossing their Republican clients. Bowker...