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...possible no such strategy exists. But last week there was a glimmer of a shred of a possibility: Operation Forward Together, the Iraqi-led effort to secure Baghdad-finally!-using classic counterinsurgency methods. "What they're trying to do is take back the city, sector by sector," says Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a leading expert on counterinsurgency (coin is the inevitable military acronym). You might well ask, What is coin? Let me oversimplify: coin is the military equivalent of the police strategies that mayors like New York City's Rudy Giuliani used...
Roosevelt left a recollection of the meeting, which remains a classic moment in the history of dealings between business and government. In that account, Morgan asks Roosevelt why he had not quietly allowed Morgan to take care of the problem without resorting to the courts...
...seemed to have the makings of a classic political showdown, except that conservatives now say they were not actually "opposing an effective vaccine." "This is an awesome vaccine," Linda Klepacki, analyst for sexual health at Focus on the Family, told me when asked her about her group's position. "It could prevent millions of deaths around the world. We support this vaccine. We see it as an extremely important medical breakthrough. To read those headlines saying we're against this is really disconcerting." What they are against, she explained, is making vaccination mandatory rather than leaving it up to parents...
...From that dazzle of sun and surf, Gow summoned up a classic of Australian theater. His 1986 play Away, which interwove the lives of three families holidaying on the coast during Christmas 1967, instantly hit audience heart strings. And in presenting young lives touched by the shadow of death, from cancer to Vietnam, Gow poetically dramatized a country's coming of age. "Another Australia emerges," dramaturg May-Brit Akerholt has written, "a country which is no longer an isolated island but part of an extended world...
...playing with a man advantage for a half, now found itself down a man when Eddie Pope was given his marching orders by Mr. Larrionda for a second yellow-card foul. The U.S. crowd, some 10,000 of whom filled one corner of the arena, let loose with that classic "Bullshit, Bullshit" chant and began flinging plastic cups, some of them half filled to get greater distance. (And that cost money, by the way. All beer cups here are returnable for a one euro deposit - these are the green World Cup games...