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...needed cleaning, but he didn't. Instead, he asked whether anyone had searched the meeting rooms. No one had, so Godfrey ran to clear them while the others started downstairs. Another frightened co-worker wanted to wait for the required phone call to evacuate. Godfrey, who looked out the window and saw hell, said, "Trust me, the person on the other end of that phone, they're not there." Godfrey nearly had to carry...
...almost two years later, Bush needed no help remembering the general's name. Behind a huge pane of bulletproof glass that Secret Service agents had wheeled in front of the window of the presidential suite at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, Bush was finally sitting down for his first face-to-face meeting with Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf. "You were in an extraordinarily difficult position," Bush told him, describing his guest's decision to join the anti-Taliban coalition a month before. "And you made the right choice." Musharraf, however, wanted something in return, something that would...
After 9/11, some of Bush's starchy unilateralism and a lot of his indifference to foreign affairs went out the window. Bush had to have Pakistan in his corner if he was to isolate bin Laden. The country's 1,500-mile border with Afghanistan had to be shut to keep al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters from fleeing across it--no easy task, and a goal that wasn't achieved. And the Pentagon would need Pakistan's airspace for military overflights and its bases for refueling planes and staging assault troops and rescue operations. "You just look at the area...
...Funny thing happens after New Year's, though. Once that first resolution goes out the window, the sheen of optimism starts to dissipate, and the new year starts to feel a lot like the old one - new number, same world, same problems, same fears. And a hangover to boot. The stock market, anticipatory beast that it is, has already started to put on the brakes; having regained 10,000 (a few times) in the past two weeks, the Dow seems positively allergic to the air at 11,000, and the NASDAQ, despite a 3-day rally to close the week...
...course, you will be far more likely to get approved for a line of credit if you apply while you are still drawing a paycheck. You may have enough of a window from the time the pink slips go out till the time you stop getting paid, but it's wiser to arrange your credit line before you need...