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...result was familiar fudge: a common statement that tried to sound tough without actually threatening real damage. The fiercest it got was to say, "In the meantime, the Union will not take any action to reinforce the relationship with Russia." Instead of projecting common resolve in the face of Russian it seemed to reinforce the sense of impotence felt by the E.U. - like the U.N. and NATO and other international organizations - in the face of Russia's actions...
September is the time India's big-game anglers pack their 10-weight rods and waders, and head to the Himalayas for a tryst with the golden mahseer, one of the fiercest freshwater fish in the world. Swollen by the monsoon, rivers gush down the rocky Himalayas - from the Ramganga in the western Himalayas to the Teesta in the east - and teem with the prized game. Living in fast-flowing currents, the mahseer is a ferocious giant - built to ascend the roaring rapids at spawning time - and gives sportfishermen a tough fight. Encounters with 40-pounders (18 kg) are commonplace...
...selling out to Bell Atlantic. His TCI and Liberty holdings would be worth about $1 billion in the merged company's stock, making the taciturn Connecticut Yankee one of the richest men in the country. With Smith as the front man, the deal distances Malone from some of his fiercest critics. He had become increasingly fed up with politicians and competitors who accused him of building his empire through ruthless, anticompetitive practices. (As a Senator, Vice President Al Gore was quoted comparing Malone to Darth Vader.) But Malone's chief reason for merging may have been the simple realization that...
...contrast to the flamboyant lives of rebel colleagues like former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Marulanda's was as thickly veiled as the Colombian jungle he occupied for half a century. But he built what was, at its apex a decade ago, one of the world's largest and fiercest insurrection forces. At the turn of the century, the Marxist-inspired FARC numbered some 20,000 fighters and controlled so much territory that it seemed it was on the verge of toppling Colombia's feckless government. "Tirofijo," one Colombian army leader commented, "is this country's only four-star general...
...said she wants to begin withdrawal of troops this year with a goal for the U.S to be out of Iraq by the end of 2009. It is a time frame virtually no Iraqi political leader sees as feasible. Not even Mahdi Army militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr, the fiercest advocate of a U.S. withdrawal on the scene, has called for such a rapid withdrawal of U.S. forces...