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Seasoned surfers are used to riding unexpected waves, but nothing could have prepared them for the shock they experienced last week when the world's largest producer of surfboard materials abruptly hung up its board. Without any advance warning, the Clark Foam factory-whose polyurethane foam ?blanks? fill more than 75 percent of all surfboards on the planet-shut its doors after 44 years in business, sending the industry into a market-driven panic. Within seconds, surfboard prices around the country skyrocketed...
...Indeed, the most effective Democratic criticism of the President's "victory" offensive came from two West Point graduates who had opposed the war, Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island and General Wesley Clark, and both took Bush to task for the skimpiness of the Iraq effort. Clark wrote a New York Times Op-Ed piece offering a thoughtful list of suggestions for a more successful prosecution of the war that he had opposed, including the deployment of more troops (which he would transfer from other regions). Reed pointed out that the President, despite his talk of limited success...
...government lawyers could cite a friend-of-the-court brief filed by two former defense secretaries, four admirals, and 20 generals—including former presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark and two former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—testifying that the Solomon Amendment is “essential” to the military’s mission...
...Coast Guard called off its rescue efforts at 1:13 p.m. Friday.The Baker family name is well known across the University, particularly at HBS, where the library is named after Baker’s great-grandfather. Martin S. Feldstein ’61 and former HBS dean Kim B. Clark ’74 are among those who have held Baker professorships, also named for the first George Baker. When Baker graduated from HBS in 1964, he continued his family’s involvement in finance and charitable activities, making sure not to become entrenched solely in the corporate world...
...government lawyers could cite a friend-of-the-court brief filed by two former defense secretaries, four admirals, and 20 generals—including former presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark and two former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—testifying that the Solomon Amendment is “essential” to the military’s mission...