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...Afghanistan, "we'll all be back here in five years fighting another terrorist organization." If America hopes to rally the world to help rebuild a post-Saddam Iraq, finishing the job in Afghanistan is a test it still must prove it can pass. --Reported by Tim McGirk/Islamabad, Alex Perry/Kunduz, Simon Robinson and Michael Ware/Kabul and Mark Thompson/Washington
...years after her debut, that naughty little girl returns in Eloise Takes a Bawth, the series' fourth tale, written by Thompson in the 1960s but never published. It is the first "new" Eloise book in 40 years. Fans, aware of its existence, have long clamored for it, and Simon & Schuster is so certain of the pent-up demand that it is printing 200,000 copies...
...they sometimes morph into armed gangs like the ones caught on videotape shooting at opposition civilians just before the coup. And though a recent Venezuelan Supreme Court ruling that exonerated the military officers who led last April's coup was dubious, it's hard to image that Lincoln - or Simon Bolivar, the 19th-century "Liberator" of South America who is Chavez's demigod hero - would have approved of his virulent campaign to remove the justices. "Venezuela is sitting on a barrel of gunpowder," warns Carlos Ortega, who is head of the nation's largest labor union but has become...
...betting she doesn't find Atlantis. But, then, I've got a stake in her coming up empty. I looked into this whole bygone civilization business a few years ago when doing researches for what became, in 1999, a Simon & Schuster book titled Atlantis Rising: The True Story of a Submerged Land, Yesterday and Today. I talked to scientists from the recently deceased paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to the great naturalist Bil Gilbert. I investigated the old hoo-hah espoused by such as Ignatius Donnelly, Jules V erne and Arthur Conan Doyle, and looked into the sounder theories of bygone...
Also elected were Shira S. Simon ’04, Christopher M. Hill ’05 and Fred O. Smith ’04 of Leverett House; James C. Coleman ’03, Rachelle K. Gould ’03 and Swarna J. Srinivas ’05 of Lowell House; Eric J. Powell ’03, Alexander B. Patterson ’03 and Colin S. Kelly ’05 of Mather House; Melissa A. Eccleston ’04, Jared M. Gross ’03 and Justin R. Chapa...