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...very important thing" and would hurt funding and recruiting, especially for the "high-end suicide bombings" usually attributed to non-Iraqis. But others point out that the foreign fighters al-Zarqawi is said to command seem to represent only a small percentage of the rebels in Iraq. The bulk of the insurgency, made up of disaffected Iraqi Sunnis, runs itself. "We face a thinking, adaptive enemy," says Marine Commandant General Michael Hagee, "and they have a seemingly inexhaustible supply of manpower." Says a foreign military commander familiar with the region: "There are hundreds to replace al-Zarqawi. Getting him will...
Four years later, Wikipedia is the cumulative work of 16,000 pairs of hands, the bulk of it done by a hard-core group of about 1,000 volunteers. Its 500,000 entries in English alone make it far larger than the 65,000-article 2005 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Wales' nonprofit Wikimedia foundation pays just one employee, who keeps the servers ticking. The foundation survives on donations and Wales' modest fortune. "This is a softball league for geeks," he says. "And there are more geeks out there than anyone suspected...
...bulk of the insurgency, however, draws its momentum not from Osama bin Laden's global jihad against America, but from the alienation and hostility toward the new Iraqi order and its U.S. sponsor pervasive in Iraq's once-dominant Sunni Arab minority. It is now conventional wisdom among U.S. officials that the key to defeating the insurgency is giving the Sunnis a greater political stake in the new order. There were positive indicators in that respect last weekend, when some 1,000 Sunni leaders gathered to coordinate their activities in search of a greater political role, particularly in the writing...
...next if the nuclear option passes. Filibustering is not the only tool the minority has to slow business to a crawl. The Senate last week got a taste of how harsh nuclear winter might be when Democrats invoked an obscure procedural rule to cancel all committee meetings, where the bulk of Senate business gets done. They have also threatened to require full Senate votes for even the most mundane business, a move that could put the brakes on the G.O.P. agenda. Democrats warn they will turn to another little-used rule to circumvent committees entirely, so that their own priorities...
...proposal would mark a major departure from the current system in which residential proctors—many of whom have no academic background in the natural sciences—assume the bulk of advising responsibilities for freshmen...