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...Cheney wasn't entirely in Powell's camp. In fact, in his taciturn, deliberate way, Cheney was starting to go through a shift in his intellectual bearings. "Dick Cheney," says Wolfowitz, "is someone whose view of the need to get rid of Saddam Hussein was transformed by Sept. 11--by the recognition of the danger posed by the connection between terrorists and WMDs and by the growing evidence of links between Iraq and al-Qaeda." After Sept. 11, Cheney began running a self-education seminar on Islam and the Middle East, meeting with experts, a Cheney aide says, "to discuss...
Most important, it's essential that kidnap victims and the people around them realize that recovery may never be truly complete. Years after an abduction, children and adults report that certain places or images may call up traumatic memories of the event, signs of a deep emotional shift that never wholly resolves itself. "It doesn't mean you can't go on," says Fassler, "but there are scars." The Smart family was still basking in the joy of their reunion last week. There will be time enough to tend to their wounds. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...family's journey from Rome in 1906 to GENEVA in the 1970s mirrors its shift from traditional drugmaking to biotech. Three generations of successions make it a most unusual biotech firm...
...After every shift, he gets back on the bench and tells us what we’re doing right and how we can improve,” said Johnson, who leads Harvard freshmen in scoring with 17 points. “He’s been the absolute leader of this team. He’s the kind of player I fashion myself to be someday. I just have so much respect for him as a player and a person. He’s such a leader and a calming presence...
Going to war in Iraq also puts at risk the success of our broader effort to combat al Qaeda worldwide. Beyond the shift of resources and attention from our anti-terrorism campaign to our anti-Iraq campaign, initiating an unpopular military conflict in Iraq may alienate crucial allies necessary to the capture of terrorists. Recent successes in the war on terror have come as a result of the work of law-enforcement agencies in many countries. As anti-American sentiment gains traction in these countries, a good-faith cooperation will be harder to produce. War in Iraq...