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...change has already been felt. Shortly after Petraeus's arrival, units of the new Iraqi Civil Defense Corps and beleaguered police stations have suddenly received shipments of new weapons and vehicles. Last week, Petraeus dispatched thousands of rounds of ammunition and hundreds of bullet-proof jackets to the Najaf police station - whose officers recently fled in terror from the Shiite militia of the Mehdi Army. With only 287 American police advisors in Iraq, the training for the country's critical new force is still patchy. That will finally catch up, says Petraeus. Meanwhile, gleaming new weapons and ceramic-plated vests...
Bilal looks down at the bloody corpse of his neighbor, Mohammed Ishak, and says: "They must have hated him very much to put so many bullets into his body." Like other residents of Alue Bieng, an idyllically beautiful village in Indonesia's war-ravaged province of Aceh, Bilal heard the shots in the early hours of June 3 but didn't dare to venture outside until well past dawn. The sight that greeted him is so commonplace in Aceh as to be almost banal: Ishak, a 51-year-old farmer who was standing watch over Alue Bieng that night...
...administrator adds that the authors of the final report could not use all the working groups’ materials in the final draft because of their informal styles—often in casual e-mail and bullet-point forms—and not necessarily because the concepts were different. And in the rush to the finish line, some recommendations were omitted and others added without first consulting the working groups...
...point, two special committees were formed—one charged with writing the mission statement for the Sept. 11 memorial and the other with drafting bullet points of elements that would be absolutely essentially to the design. Berry was selected to serve on the latter committee...
General Motors bit the bullet in April and finally shut down its Oldsmobile division, freeing me to share a secret: despite the assertions of the famous ad campaign, it was always your father's Oldsmobile. The body styles were boring, the engines ho-hum, the seats fairly comfortable but blandly upholstered, and the radios seemed to be preset at the factory to play only stations called "the Breeze." Plus, most of them smelled like Pall Malls and cherry cough drops...