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...manner. But by his own admission, he's not great at lobbying. And, unfortunately, that's how Sosenko, 49, has lately been spending much of his time--circulating petitions at the local hospital, pleading with politicians for help. He has spent sleepless nights worrying that he may have to uproot his wife and three children from their home in Joliet, Ill., or else give up the profession he loves--all because he can't find affordable malpractice insurance...
...mouths. That is, see what they're chewing: coca leaves, treasured by Andean Indians like Morales as a sacred tonic and as their most lucrative cash crop but better known to Americans as the raw material of cocaine. Over the past five years, the U.S. has got Bolivia to uproot almost all of its coca shrubs--only to see Morales, 42, and his left-wing Movement to Socialism engineer an astonishing protest this year that could force Bolivia's next government to let the plants flourish again. "The coca leaf," says Morales, whose party took the second largest bloc...
...Powell the setbacks came almost hourly on Friday. First, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made it clear that Israel had no intention of complying with the Bush administration's call for it to withdraw its army from West Bank towns "without delay." Israel would withdraw only when its mission to "uproot terror" had been completed, said Sharon, and he expressed hope that the operation would be finished soon...
...power has smashed a noxious regime that had defiantly harbored the headquarters and engine room of the largest transnational terror corporation in history. Al Qaeda has suffered significant losses and, more importantly, has lost the sanctuary that allowed it to reproduce and expand its terror networks. The battle to uproot and eliminate those networks may yet take years, but it will be waged primarily by the world's law enforcement and intelligence services. Al Qaeda no longer has de facto control over a whole country, and the world is a safer place...
...have slipped the noose. But behind closed doors in the Pentagon, senior military officers are jubilant, even to the point of sounding cocky, about how their first battle in the war against terrorism has gone, referring to the attack on Afghanistan to take down the Taliban and to uproot the al-Qaeda terrorist base there. Sure, U.S. commandos have been hunting day and night (without success) for bin Laden himself, but from the beginning Pentagon strategists were never optimistic that he?d be found quickly. He'll be caught or killed eventually, Pentagon officials insist, but no one seems willing...