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...never met. Suicide bombers are supposed to be 17-year-old zealots with nothing to live for but the hope of a martyr's welcome by 72 virgins in paradise. These men, the FBI reveals, lived middle-class lives, had degrees and jobs and wives and kids and a willingness to leave them all to kill us. Among the casualties last week was our sweet certainty that anyone lucky enough to be able to live in America, share its vices and freedoms and gifts, surely would not want to destroy it. Athens Oct. 11, 2004 As Liu Xiang raced...
Of course, maintaining your policy until you die is usually the smartest move of all--if you can afford it. "People don't think they're ever going to die, which is why life insurance is such a hard sell in the first place," says John Skar, chief actuary at...
An obstacle that faces Hilles now is whether students, especially non-Quadlings, will be willing to use it.
Haass has probably thought some of this for months; but he was reluctant to express it in public. Now he has. Which means the coalition of the willing, which has almost disappeared overseas, is now on its last legs at home.
But again, as I said, a lot of that is due directly to what the United States and Britain did in Iraq. And we'll see now whether or not the U.N. Security Council, basically, is willing to step up. And there is a test for that organization. If there...