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...emptive engagement is the ultimate sign of his visionary grasp of what is needed to fight and win the war on terror. "Something had to be done," says Kathie Tenner's husband Bruce, who sounds a lot like Bush when he argues, "Over the long haul, if we can establish democracy in one nation over there, it's going to spread." Edward Wiederstein, a farmer in Audubon, Iowa, goes so far as to suggest that Bush's critics are "promoting the enemy, as far as I'm concerned. The more rhetoric they've stepped up, the more the attacks against...
...officials say they are working to establish a court system that can prosecute the worst offenders from Saddam's regime. According to the plan, the tribunals will first try the 45 key Baathist leaders in custody, then move on to rank-and-file regime loyalists accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. But it could take years for such courts to bring former Baathist officials to justice. At a recent conference, Iraqi human-rights groups lashed out at a director of the reconciliation effort in Cambodia, where the process of trying members of Pol Pot's regime...
Tsuda, 58, joined phone giant NTT in 1970 as an engineer and 20 years later helped establish the mobile-phone project that grew into the independent company NTT DoCoMo (though NTT retains a 63% stake). During Tsuda's tenure as executive manager of corporate strategy, NTT DoCoMo launched its biggest hit to date, an e-mail and Internet service for mobile phones called i-mode, which has helped the company dominate Japan's mobile-phone market...
...which he wrote with his daughters Naomi and Kirsten, is obviously in part an autobiographical film. The director of My Left Foot, among other excellent movies, was a fairly recent (1981) immigrant to the U.S., had a brother whose early death shaped his sensibility and of course struggled to establish himself in a new land...
Although NATO has finally decided to send additional soldiers to establish what it calls "islands" of stability outside the capital, its 19 member nations have managed to scrape together only 200 extra troops for the task--all from Norway. Afghan security officials expected 3,000. Of the troops already in Afghanistan--from Canada, Britain, Germany and many other countries--few can be spared from their current duties. Roughly 8,500 U.S. soldiers are busy hunting down the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and some 5,300 NATO troops are required for security in Kabul. That is because 30,000 unruly, battle...