But the Taliban are America's enemy not just because they bear responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the US. They are the enemy of the US because they are evil monsters.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's altruistic foreign policy

And Leishman probably just felt too much for the club to bear being in charge while they turn in any more abject performances like Monday's.

BBC: SPORT | Football | Scottish Premier | Goodbye to the dugout

With prime brokerage (a business that caters to the trading and business needs of hedge funds) as a primary revenue source for the company, it's unclear just how much business Bear Stearns has lost in the last few days.

FORBES: Bear On The Bubble

Disappointing investors just last month with weak guidance for the third quarter, Priceline plunged into bear market territory in a single session, losing more than 15%.

FORBES: The Return of the Negotiator and the Revival of Priceline

So a proposal that says we'll solve this problem temporarily or for the long term, either way, just by asking those folks to bear the burden is not one the President would support.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

"I am confident that when I ask the relatively prosperous to bear a small burden for one year, just one year, they will do so cheerfully, " he said.

WSJ: India Plans to Impose a New Tax on the Rich

The other day, I was explaining to my third graders that we were going to practice a lockdown just in case a bear happened to be on the playground -- a real scenario for our Colorado school.

CNN: Columbine survivor: No child should worry about gunmen

And it is farmers throughout the UK - not just in vaccinated areas and not only cattle farmers - who will have to bear the consequences for a very long time to come.

BBC: Q&A: Why not vaccinate?

The government just passed a strict gun control law that will make it difficult for its guards to bear arms.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Out of South Africa

He had routed some proceeds through Bear accounts, but the firm--which just settled unrelated civil charges of clearing trades for a sleazy brokerage--says the individuals weren't its clients and hence it owed no duty.

FORBES: The Informer

Freddy had ambled onto a helipad from which the day's last visitors had just flown, so Solovev loaded a shotgun with his preferred ammunition for bear safety: flare cartridges, designed only to scare.

BBC: Five days in Russia's Ring of Fire