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Person of the Week
OVER THERE Rookie Commander in Chief GEORGE W. BUSH is earning his stripes the hard way, conducting a war in his first year in office. So far he has dropped bombs, delivered food and talked tough. Now, can he march Americans into harm's way overseas while keeping the home front calm?

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"We're not running out of targets, Afghanistan is."
DONALD RUMSFELD,
U.S. Secretary of Defense, explaining that the Taliban and al-Qaeda have little infrastructure left to be destroyed

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