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...March 14 story, "Study Links Terror, Anti-War Rhetoric," misstated the U.S. Army's approach to terrorists. The Army pursued a strategy of seek and destroy terrorists until General David H. Petraeus took command of American forces in Iraq, not since...
...Monten and Iyengar describe, the Army had pursued a strategy of seek and destroy with respect to terrorists since General David H. Petraeus took command of American forces in Iraq. This change in leadership represented a measurable, though incomplete, shift in strategy, according to Monten and Iyengar. [SEE CORRECTION...
...Vivendi. Yet it is Messier's calamitous experience with the buzzy, fuzzy concept of convergence that has made him a player again. Just as in 2000, media and Web companies today talk of straddling a world in which users of any device--mobile phone, laptop, PDA, TV--can command voice, data, video, entertainment and games on demand. Messier saw that coming--perhaps too soon...
...equity culture is far from dead at privately held companies, where broad-based stock-ownership plans (ESOPs) are still popular and well funded. If you're changing jobs, keep that in mind. At public companies, meanwhile, you can still command options or restricted shares if you are a top performer. "But most people should focus on their benefits, like a cash bonus, a raise and the 401(k) match," says David Broman, CEO of pay consultant Syzygy. "Companies are in the driver's seat...
...staff by then-defense secretary Dick Cheney in 1990 for telling reporters traveling with him about Air Force attack options to help drive Iraq out of Kuwait following Saddam Hussein's invasion of that country earlier that year. In 1995, Admiral Richard Macke, then the head of Pacific Command, was ousted after telling reporters over breakfast that sailors and Marines who beat and raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead of paying for the car they rented and used in the crime...