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...Retract TURKEY The Kurdish rebel group PKK called off a four-year cease-fire, accusing the government of failing to reciprocate. The move threatened to upset talks between Ankara and Pentagon officials on the possible deployment of Turkish troops to Iraq. Washington has not yet fulfilled its promise to eject the estimated 5,000 PKK militants believed to be based in northern Iraq...
...would be hundreds of miles out to sea, that turned out not to be true: the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was just 39 miles from shore. (Still, Bush spent part of last Tuesday taking a water-emergency training course at the White House pool, in case he was forced to eject into the Pacific.) Then there was the carrier's position, which had to be tilted to obscure any view of the nearby coastline and ensure a picture-perfect azure backdrop. All in a day's work for the President? Not exactly. Bush was so energized by the experience that...
...later, when Dragoljub Marsicanin, a Kostunica aide, was forced out of the post. Since then she has presided over often fractious legislators with a gentle but firm hand. It hasn't been easy. She has had water thrown in her face and once had to order security staff to eject several unruly M.P.s. But she never lost her cool. "Maybe they thought I wouldn't be strong enough to stand up to them because I'm a woman," she says. "They were wrong." During the Milosevic years, Micic had ample opportunity to toughen up as a human-rights activist...
...know whether to hit the eject button on your adviser? Securities attorney Dan Solin, author of the new book Does Your Broker Owe You Money?, notes that a good adviser should have limited your risk by keeping your investments diversified. A typical portfolio of 25% bonds and 75% stocks (spread among large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap companies in various industries) is down about 12% since the beginning of 2001. If yours is down much more, that's a red flag...
Though the game was out of reach by halftime, MIT coach Jeff Ma continued to work the sides of the pool, yelling at the officials to eject several Harvard players, including Schulte...