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...Baghdad presumably to guard against a coup, Saddam has entrusted the city's defense mostly to the 15,000-man Special Republican Guard and the Special Security Organization. Those groups are badly outmuscled by the 325 Abrams tanks, 200 Bradley fighting vehicles and 100 attack helicopters soon to bear down on them. The survivors among the defenders, however, along with the Fedayeen, would probably mount persistent ambushes on coalition troops. At a Pentagon press briefing last week, Rumsfeld said that "this terrorist-type threat ... will very likely continue" throughout the war. Noted an Air Force officer: "It's going...
...allied strategy by pointing to rising public support for the war effort. "People are seeing firsthand that there are some fierce battles going on," says a senior Administration official. "It's steeling the public." While Iraqi officials gloated that the invaders did not have the stomach to bear the casualties inflicted on their forces, a different phenomenon unfolded in the war rooms in Washington, London and Qatar and in the coalition foxholes and camps scattered across the Iraqi desert; the grit of battle and the prospect of losses to come seemed to produce even more clear-eyed determination among...
Three years into the bear market, one kind of help is finally on the way: easy access to personalized, professional advice on how to invest the assets in your workplace retirement account. Somewhat suddenly, companies are tripping over themselves to provide this valuable service, and you should take advantage of it--after you sort out the potential conflicts of interest and the costs...
Still, from the “cool girlfriend” who proves herself to the boys by explaining what she would attack first (a bear or a tiger) if cornered, to the pro football player who laments that his child has been afflicted with “artism,” the skits actually attack our assumptions about gender head-on with unflinching satire. For instance, the football star ends up solving his problem by drafting a free agent Russian orphan...
...said the government should bear the burden of fixing the system so as not disrupt the flow of foreign students in and out of the country...