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...Marines in Afghanistan at the time to find bin Laden. Some officers now say that instead of trying to finish the job quickly and with minimal risks last year, the U.S. should have tried to surround bin Laden's lair, deploy troops to seal off the Pakistani border and wait until spring to attack. Even then, Pentagon officials say, bin Laden might still have slipped through their grasp...
...addicted to trees," Pakenham explains. "So if we walked by a tree and she became oddly silent and then said in a very small voice, 'Wow!', I knew it was a candidate for the book." Like Ansel Adams, whose meticulous photographic technique was his model, Pakenham often had to wait days for just the right light to appear. "I take portraits of trees, not landscapes," he says. "I try to reduce all the complexities of a tree's personality into two dimensions...
...difference of about €2.1 billion. The main culprit was the group's insurance operations, whose investments have been ravaged by the cratering stock market. "We've not seen such volatility in the history of the world," says Jozef de Mey, chief executive of the Fortis AG insurance subsidiary. Wait a minute - aren't insurers supposed to be the stodgiest, most conservative investors around? Even if they can't forecast the future, they are, after all, the companies that other people turn to for protection against risk. Like Fortis, the entire European insurance industry has got ill from the stock...
...entryway mates assigned by the Freshman Dean’s Office who may have a different view of the acceptability of vomiting in the halls on Saturday nights. Though many students form close bonds with their first-year roommates (and ultimately block with them), others can’t wait to move on to meet a different group of peers in the Houses...
Entryway meetings and smoking breaks on the vaunted steps of Widener Library will come to a halt next week, and the Class of 2006 will have to wait a full year to walk up the temporary wooden steps that are installed every winter to prevent library users from slipping...