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...south into the mountains. Russian forces have reportedly surrounded the village, but haven't tried to advance on the rebel positions there. Capturing Grozny, of course, is primarily of symbolic importance, because the object of a counterinsurgency war is less to capture territory than it is to isolate and destroy guerrilla forces. The rebels have long maintained that their game plan was always to withdraw from Grozny after making the Russians pay a heavy price for the city - which they've certainly done. "This is less a retreat than a tactical maneuver," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "The Chechens...
Korder (Search and Destroy, Boys' Life) has specialized in cynical, Mametesque comedy, but with The Hollow Lands he raises the stakes and instantly leaps to the front rank of American dramatists. It is a beautifully written work; Korder seems to have invented the very language of his 19th century characters--formalized yet colloquial, terse yet grandly poetic. "Shall we speak of profit?" urges Samuel Markham Hayes, the Pied Piper who lures Newman west. "You will see it fiftyfold, I guarantee it. Shall we tell of kings? Look into the glass, you will find the measure of one. Shall we dream...
Researchers at Women.com studying women's online usage across the country, learned the same lesson. "The one thing common to all women was that they viewed each session as a search-and-destroy mission," says senior vice president of marketing Anna Zornosa. "They'd come online with a list of five to 12 things they wanted to get accomplished, ranging from 'How do I move my IRA?' to 'My child has this rash'--activities that expressed the range of their entire lives. This medium was built for the modern woman...
Putin knows that the one thing that can kill public support for the war is body bags; they destroy his promise of a low-casualty victory. Though neither side is telling the truth, Russian casualties are plainly mounting fast and becoming harder to hide. Late last week the military admitted that 742 soldiers have died since Caucasus military operations began last August. Two weeks ago they acknowledged 465 dead. Even by those highly suspect statistics, Russia has suffered almost 190 deaths in the past two weeks. In fact, the total war tally is almost double the official figures, a source...
...billion U.S. National Missile Defense (NMD) program suffered another setback Tuesday night when it failed its most elaborate test to date. An interceptor missile fired from a Pacific atoll failed to hit a mock warhead deployed by a missile fired in California. Although the system managed to destroy a mock warhead last October, it was later reported to have been a lucky accident after the interceptor missile had locked on to a decoy balloon that drifted close to the target. "I call the Pentagon all the time and sometimes they can?t transfer my calls to the right place," says...