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In what scenario could a National Guardsman with an automatic rifle better handle a terrorist threat than law enforcement or well-trained civilian security? Neither the Taliban nor anyone else is going to storm into an airport and open fire—at least, unless they have a penchant for...
President Bush and the media have repeated time and time again that we are at war with terror and will be indefinitely. But our most elusive enemy is not the Taliban or the international network it depends on for support. Our most elusive enemy is our own short-sightedness and...
The throw by Grant not only blew away all personal, school, and Ivy records, it also put her in good position to qualify for NCAAs. Provided that Grant does not reach the automatic qualifying distance of 19.50 meters, she needs to be among the top 16 or 17 throwers in...
Defending NCAA high jump champion Kart Siilats got her season off to a respectable start, winning the event with a leap of 1.75 meters—short of the automatic qualifying mark by eight centimeters.
(2 of 4) SUNDAY AFTERNOON At 2 p.m. two minivans and a pair of open-sided white Land Rovers mounted with machine guns pulled up outside the fortress gates. From the minivans jumped nine American special-operations men wearing wraparound sunglasses and baseball caps and carrying snub-nosed M-4...