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...military courts are just a terrorism prosecutor's fantasy. In the meantime, Ashcroft must win the approval of Congress for his less radical proposals. Some will not be controversial. It makes sense to split the Immigration and Naturalization Service so that border protection and immigrant services are independent. That will allow the border patrol to focus all its attention on keeping shady characters out. No one will argue against updating the Justice Department's computer system, which is so bad that many employees work from ancient terminals that can't access the Internet. Even the focus on counterterrorism began before...
Among families split and frayed by old fights and disappointments, people find that the attacks have provided an occasion to do what they wanted to do anyway. "There is something about the imminence of mortality that moves people to make peace if they can," says Frederic Luskin, a fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., who conducts forgiveness workshops around the country. "I've had a number of patients say to me, 'It's hard to take a grudge seriously when you look at the World Trade Center.'" The baby boomers, he notes, are "a psychologically savvy generation...
...here's one way the stereotypes don't apply: some of the increase in households headed by unmarried fathers may be attributed to gay men who recently won the right to get custody or adopt. Curt Peterson, a Minneapolis strategic-planning consultant, split with his wife after he came out as a homosexual. They share custody of Andrew, 16, but Peterson's house is home base. Peterson takes pleasure in "the simple stuff of life. Just being there. Making sure that on Saturdays and Sundays we have hot cinnamon rolls for breakfast." As manager of Andrew's ice-hockey team...
...Ming, his students like to say, is "half man, half amazing." But when he's breaking boulders with his skull or flying above ground upside down in a full split, that hardly does him justice. Even when he holds still (which isn't often), the 37-year-old Shaolin Temple fighting monk manages to look more mythical than mortal. He's got the face of a Xian terra-cotta warrior?acrobatically piked eyebrows, rampart-like cheekbones?and the kind of body that helps explain why kung fu is called...
...accounts of defectors and Taliban prisoners held by the Northern Alliance allowed U.S. intelligence agents to check hunches about the location of bin Laden and Omar, who early last week was thought to be hiding with bin Laden. Military officials believe the two men later split up, communicating via human messengers and walkie- talkies. The implosion of Taliban-held territory left both men with few places to run outside of southeastern Afghanistan, and intelligence sources told Time they believed friction between the two would lead one of them to make a fateful blunder that gave away their locations. "The confidence...