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...finance postwar military operations--most of which, $66 billion, would fund the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. Wolfowitz's questioners wanted an explanation. "You told Congress in March that, quote, 'we are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction--and relatively soon,'" said Senator Carl Levin. "Talk about rosy scenarios!" Indeed, the architects of the Pentagon's postwar-Iraq plans were guided by several key assumptions that haven't panned...
...divide has formed over the pay issue. Some on the board insist that all directors were aware of Grasso's pay and agreed to set it so high partly because the exchange is not publicly traded and cannot grant stock options to retain top managers. But exchange director H. Carl McCall, who remains a Grasso supporter, says he and others were unaware of how the numbers added up. He faults the Big Board's human-resources staff for not clarifying the amounts Grasso was accumulating through complicated bonus and pension formulas. "Not everyone on the board understood, in aggregate...
...stature Cash embodies is not so much out of fashion as above it. His CDs are found in the country section of the music store, but he doesn't quite fit there. He came up with rockabilly phenoms like Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, but few of his songs were hard-driving rave-ups. I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues--these are, if anything, contemporary folk songs. Cash sang of specific injustices and eternal truths; he was the deadpan poet of cotton fields, truck stops and prisons. He was a balladeer, really...
Abdulaziz Sachedina, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia who spent much of his career in Canada, says that most Sunni community centers in Canada receive Saudi funding. Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, a Ph.D. student at McGill University's Institute for Islamic Studies, which specializes in the worldwide spread of Islamic culture, estimates that 10% to 20% of Canada's 580,000 Muslims adhere to Wahhabism...
Contrary to what you may have heard, Harvard standout wide receiver Carl Morris ‘03 wasn’t the only offensive force to put away his Crimson jersey for the final time at last season?...