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...Afghanistan. Today U.S. warplanes still patrol the skies over Kabul, and American troops are certain to stay in the country for months, even years to come. But the combat phase of the war appears to be over. America's defeat of the Taliban was remarkable for its speed, precision and relative painlessness to Americans, judging by U.S. casualties. Beginning with the first U.S. bombing run on Oct. 7, American air power and a hodgepodge allied ground force--consisting of a few hundred U.S. and British special-ops commandos, a smattering of Western ground troops and 15,000 Northern Alliance fighters...
...believes Liberal M.E.P. Andrew Duff, will be "a transfer of sovereignty" to the E.U.'s central institutions - which unless handled deftly could give nations with painful memories of Soviet-style diktats another reason to question where the E.U. bus is taking them. That bus must first navigate the Irish speed bump. The danger is that with a no vote on Nice, enlargement will lose its sense of inevitability, and the whole enterprise will founder in a sea of squabbles. "It could be contagious," says Hübner, the Polish Minister for European Affairs, "and that would leave us with...
...This is the best we have played all season,” said coach Jim Floerchinger. “The speed of play we got used to in California was carried over here...
...evening in the Dunster dining hall, and three Harvard men have convened to test their wits. Coffee is sipped. Brows are furrowed. Insults are spouted. And Scrabble tiles are flipped and slid across the table with speed and agility. A study group it is not; anagrams...
When Bob Barker called Alyssa Smith out of the audience to be a contestant on “The Price is Right,” she ran down the aisle at a breakneck pace. Her need for speed manifested itself once again on Sunday afternoon, when she arrived a good three minutes before any of her competition. Her three roommates came for moral support and to take embarrassing photos...