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...Gist: It was an endless campaign - close to two years of political and cultural combat among a sprawling cast of presidential hopefuls that, eventually, led to a history-making Commander in Chief. Journalists Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson - current and former Washington Post reporters, respectively - capture the momentous contest in a polished account refreshingly free of last year's breathless soundbites, pundit insta-reaction or fixation on trifling gaffes (the maelstrom over President Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment warrants barely a mention). Instead, it provides an evenhanded and comprehensive account of the race, based on interviews with...
...commanders in Iraq. An internal memo drafted by Colonel Timothy Reese, an adviser to the Iraqi senior military command, and leaked to the New York Times last month doesn't mince words. He writes that it is time "for the U.S. to declare victory and bring our combat forces home...
...longer under the sway of the U.S. forces that brought it into being. Reese notes a "sudden coolness" being displayed by Iraqi commanders toward their American counterparts after June 30, the date when the Status of Forces Agreement, concluded between Baghdad and Washington last December, required that U.S. combat forces withdraw from Iraq's towns and cities. Following that date, suspects detained by U.S. soldiers were freed by Iraqis. And the Iraqi government openly disdained the recent offer by Vice President Joe Biden during a visit to Baghdad to help mediate in its conflicts with Kurds and Sunnis. Top military...
...Congress added 33 extra weeks of unemployment benefits. As part of the stimulus bill this year, Congress added an additional potential 20 weeks for the worst hit states, raising to 79 weeks the maximum time a laid-off worker can draw unemployment assistance while looking for a job. To combat "hysteresis," or the atrophying of job skills in the labor force, the Labor Department issued an opinion earlier this year that workers can still draw unemployment insurance even if they work a volunteer job during their search for a paying...
...deputy chief of staff of Russia's armed forces, made it clear that the country is willing to fight again if it feels it has been provoked. "As a military man, I will be direct," he said at a news conference on Tuesday after the Russian army increased the combat readiness of troops in South Ossetia. "If there is aggression, there will be an adequate response...