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...difference of experience." Buxton has become a more active, though neurotic leader. Tonight he spends half an hour drawing up different seating arrangements in the three humvees. As the Tomb Raiders grease their guns and pack flashlights and zip-ties (for cuffing hands) into their flak vests, Winston, the platoon's weathered senior sergeant, briefs them on Abu Taha, a middle-aged, overweight man who may be a "major supplier" of weapons to the insurgents. The room falls silent as Winston outlines evacuation procedures in the event that the troops encounter resistance at the house. Since Colgan's death, Winston...
...himself Arabic and missed the birth of a son. Specialist Bernard Talimeliyor, 24, a native of the U.S. protectorate of Yap, Micronesia, was so moved by the events of 9/11 that he decided to enlist, even though he had never seen mainland U.S. Two noncommissioned officers, Staff Sergeant Abe Winston, 42, and Sergeant David Kamont, 34, serve as mentors to the platoon's three youngest G.I.s, Private Lequine Arnold, 20, an African American from Goldsboro, N.C.; Beverly, an amateur artist from Akron, Ohio; and Jenks, who joined the platoon in late November. Grimes, 26, the only female soldier attached...
...Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (Random House; 490 pages), Jon Meacham, the No. 2 editor at Newsweek, has written a handsomely Plutarchan study that weaves together the lives, characters and fates of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in the years of their wartime partnership. Most of the anecdotes have been told a thousand times, but Meacham manages to align the two giants in a way that makes the stories seem fresh, the two men, seen so close together, casting interesting lights upon each other...
...this a "dead-cat bounce"--a temporary rebound from a permanent decline--or the first sign of true recovery? to paraphrase Winston Churchill, the rise in Japan's market may not signal the end of the country's troubles, nor the beginning of the end. But it may be the end of the beginning of its turnaround. As Tom Shrager, co-manager of Tweedy, Browne Global Value Fund, puts it, "Everything you hear about Japan you should consider in slow motion, because it moves so sluggishly." With that caveat, here are some reasons to be cheerful...
...show of muscular strength, as Krauthammer would like to believe, it weakened the U.S. After 9/11, we had the attention and cooperation of our allies and even many unfriendly regimes around the globe. Krauthammer may think alliances are for cowards and losers, but people like Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill spoke often of the need to cultivate alliances in the name of security. The fact is, we will never beat terrorism by blowing up other countries. BRANDEN FRANKEL Newport Beach, Calif...