When storms ease, `you’ll see a rapid movement’
The early days of the war against Iraq have shown the importance of the military imperative "adapt and overcome." Adapt to the weather: the brutal sandstorms that rob visibility and...
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War dispatches
Far above Iraq, Lt. Cmdr. Zeno Rausa looked down on two rivers of light streaming toward Baghdad. "The troops have swept so far north. It seemed to me there were...
War dispatches
WITH THE 101st AIRBORNE The signs kept warning the soldiers where they were going, as if they didn't already know. "Iraq border, 25 meters." "Iraq border, 10 meters." Then, beyond...
War dispatches
WITH THE 101st AIRBORNE Sitting in the hot sun in their bulky, suffocating chemical gear, the soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne Division waited impatiently to cross into enemy territory....
A reporter hopes big news doesn’t come her unit’s way
When I was younger, fresh out of journalism school, I would salivate at big--and, therefore, usually bad--news. I wanted the assignment. I wanted to grab the notebook and go. I...
Legend to outlive storied hospital
A doctor tells of Cook County Hospital being so short-staffed that several physicians once trained a few homeless men sleeping in the halls to do lab tests. A nurse describes...
Eyes of world on New York
Commemorations of the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks unfolded in time zones around the globe Wednesday, but the eyes of the world focused on ground zero. Ringed...
Anguish permeates hallowed ground
The woman was wide-eyed, panicked. "Officer, you've got to help me," she said, scanning the dusty 16-acre crater that was once the World Trade Center. "I need to know where...
With grief and resolve, U.S. pauses to remember
Commemorations of the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks unfolded in time zones around the globe Wednesday, but the eyes of the world focused on ground zero. Ringed...
Crane operator finds self among trade center’s lost
She returned there on a sweltering summer day, to the place that some people had called hell and some people had called hallowed ground but that she had simply come...