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...We’re a long way from the finish line here,” Brokaw said. “The landscape is relatively calm, but there’s this molten mass underneath the surface...
Plan C - or is it plan D? - for Fallujah involves the Marines withdrawing from their siege lines around the insurgent-held town and allowing one of Saddam Hussein's top former generals to lead a newly constituted Iraqi military unit to go in and restore calm. The new initiative, announced Thursday by local Marine commander Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne, follows days of negotiation with former Iraqi generals and local politicians. It comes three weeks after the Marines first went in to punish those responsible for killing and mutilating four U.S. private security men, and 10 days after the first attempt...
With the regatta’s 17 races per division pared down to 15 on Sunday morning on account of calm wind conditions, Harvard had all but locked up one of the top six positions required for a trip to the national tournament. For good measure, the two original ship pairings hammered home the message with eight top-four results, highlighted by three wins—one in ‘A,’ two in the ‘B’—to comfortably edge Tufts, Yale and Connecticut College for the title...
...Johnson III, whose own father founded the mutual-fund giant in 1946. So you could say she's had a comfort level most executives never enjoy. There's also the cushion of being worth nearly $10 billion as heir to the privately held Fidelity juggernaut. "She's cool and calm, and she works hard every day," says Eric Kobren, editor of the independent newsletter Fidelity Insight. "She doesn't have that air of being one of the richest people in the world." Or of managing one of the world's largest pots of money, $893 billion in mutual-fund assets...
...Jones is a light rain, touching everything and seeping permanently into the soil. In an age when knob-twiddling producers rule and lip-synching pop tarts stalk the stage, she has reintroduced the world to the human voice. Jones is rooted by that libidoless, timeless and peerless voice--a calm, blue-tinted murmur that shies away from American Idol--style showboating. I like her jazzy, soulful first album more than her folksy, drowsy second. But in the serenity of her song delivery, this bold proclamation is issued: technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they...