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Rumsfeld himself rejects the idea that more troops would necessarily have made the task of rebuilding a traumatized land a snap. Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik, now overseeing Iraq's police force, similarly doesn't think that more soldiers would make his job any easier. In Kerik's view, it's the quality of decision making, not the quantity of officers, that determines how well a job is done. Alefan, the sheik in Fallujah, wouldn't disagree. He doesn't want more U.S. troops, just better behavior. If Americans want to maintain security, they just need...
...Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner running Iraq's Interior Ministry, has an unusual take on the wave of attacks on American soldiers that claimed five lives last week. It's an encouraging sign of change, he says. "It gives me the sense that the rule of law is taking hold and the freeing up of Iraqi society is working," Kerik tells TIME. "There are people in pockets of resistance who have lost a lot of power, and as Iraq blossoms and flourishes, these groups are going to come out and rebel. That's a clear sign...
...accounts, 36.8 million of the 51.6 million PPR shares owned by Artémis were pledged to banks at the end of last year. A significant cause of these woes dates back to September 2001, when Pinault won a ferocious two-year fight with another French tycoon, Bernard Arnault, for control of the Italian fashion firm Gucci. Victory seemed sweet, but it carried a $7 billion price tag. The timing could not have been worse. The day after the deal was signed, al-Qaeda slammed planes into Manhattan's World Trade Center, crushing the already fragile economy. With hindsight...
...days before his 71st birthday, Bernard F. Law submitted his comments to the 50th Anniversary Report for the Class...
DIED. DAME WENDY HILLER, 90, eminent British stage star and Oscar-winning film actress; in London. A regal woman with a rich voice, Hiller was George Bernard Shaw's leading lady, first as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and then, most memorably, in Major Barbara. Her aristocratic bearing served her well as a tourist in Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express and as the elegant widow in the London stage version of Driving Miss Daisy...