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...strengthen human rights violators is quite another—and could very well harm the long-term national interest. The guerrillas whom the U.S. supported in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion have used their skills only for more violence; the terrorist group Hamas was once Israel’s ill-fated attempt to create a competitor to the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...just completed a paper on juvenile obesity, titled “A Call to Action,” before his ill-fated plane ride. He was also in the midst of a two-year fellowship awarded to him by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine...
...bluff, the exact nature of the military action that follows can have profound consequences for the broader anti-terror alliance. The European NATO members may have agreed to aid a U.S. military retaliation, but all except Britain are showing signs of uneasiness over being drawn into an ill-defined or open-ended war - indeed, they refuse to call it a "war" at all. The Bush administration, of course, is likely to steer clear of the sort of frontal invasion of Afghanistan that became a nightmare for the Soviets, and instead concentrate on special forces operations along with British commandos...
...somehow tend to both the budget and the soul. But as important as administrative skill and pastoral experience may be, many churches admit that right now, there's one gift that matters most. Says Duain Claiborne, who chaired the call committee for his Lutheran church in Northfield, Ill.: "The only thing people want to know is, 'Can he preach...
...security measures announced in the wake of the attacks, only the ban on metal knives would have interfered with the recent hijackings. The ending of curbside check-in and the restriction of boarding areas to ticket-holding passengers may serve to inconvenience terrorists, but such measures seem ill-designed to stop them...