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...minute, in which time presenters had to state their business vision and what sort of investment and management they would require. The pitches catered to a variety of needs. Suggestions ranged from a Web site offering virtual career experiences, to a device that would automatically alert a call center when the elderly wearer falls, to online video cooking technique demonstrations...

Author: By Jacob Cedarbaum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HBS Launches New Entrepreneurial Contest | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

There was fear that Clemmons could pop up anywhere. Tips and sightings came in from all over. Someone believed they'd seen Clemmons getting off a bus in the University District, home to the University of Washington, in the northeast part of the city. Another call came in suggesting that Clemmons had been spotted at Jose Rizal park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of south Seattle. Officers were dispatched to bus and train stations. As the search grew more frantic, frustration and fury over the murders grew too. In a demonstration of restrained anguish at a midmorning press conference during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cop-Killer Crisis Ends, but Tacoma's Anxiety Lingers | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...There's no sign, at least publicly, of a surge in growth of the Afghan army. Obama on Tuesday night steered clear of dealing with McChrystal's August call to hike the combined size of the Afghan army and national police to 400,000. Current plans call for the boosting of the Afghan army to 134,000 troops and the national police force to 82,000 by 2011. McChrystal warned that those totals were insufficient and called for boosting the army to 240,000 ("to increase pressure on the insurgency in all threatened areas in the country") and the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left Out: How to Grow the Afghan Army | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...Tuesday afternoon, a senior White House official who declined to be quoted by name dismissed McChrystal's call for a bigger Afghan force. "We know that number's out there," the official said, without mentioning that it was put out there by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. James Dubik, a retired Army general who trained the Iraqi military and is now a senior fellow at the independent Institute for the Study of War, argues that the Obama Administration needs to embrace McChrystal's goal. "There's a significant psychological effect on the Taliban if we announce we're going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left Out: How to Grow the Afghan Army | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...House event to highlight the Administration's efforts on HIV/AIDS. In perhaps an implicit acknowledgement that this year's commitment has been less than robust, the word of the day was recommitment. On Tuesday U.S. global AIDS coordinator Eric Goosby released a five-year strategy for what Obama officials call "the next phase of PEPfAR." As Clinton described it on Monday, that next phase will focus on "transitioning from emergency response to sustainable health systems that help meet the broad medical needs of people with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Obama Scaling Back Bush's AIDS Initiative? | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

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