Word: commandeering
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...deal with internal splits. "The cabinet is deeply divided," says the interim leader's adviser. "But that's the government given to him by the U.N. in Bonn and he has to work with it." A power struggle between Defense Minister Fahim, an ethnic Tajik from Panshir who assumed command of the Northern Alliance last year, and non-Panshiri ministers has turned government into a slugfest. "The minute (Karzai) leaves the country (Fahim) tries to get his men into new positions," says the adviser. The foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, meantime, has stacked the foreign ministry and Afghanistan's embassies with...
Next Friday night: I accompany Cadet Brian R. Smith ’02 to the ROTC military ball. Uniforms everywhere. Brian, besides wearing a dress uniform and acting very gentlemanly, introduces me to the four-star general and countless other muckety-mucks in the high command. We go back to Harvard after an impassioned speech by the general and welcome every single Air Force Cadet in the ROTC program to Brian’s common room. I feel empowered by the fact that I am bigger and stronger than the AF-ROTC troglodyte girls and force them to drink Pabst...
...Christopher Morris' photos of General Tommy Franks' Central Command in Tampa, Fla. [NATION, March 18], left a lot of you wondering about the attire of the top brass. "Isn't it ludicrous for Franks and his staff to be wearing combat boots and fatigues while sitting around their air-conditioned offices?" asked a Floridian. "Are they expecting to be rushed to the front?" An Arizonan noted, "The camouflage uniforms and combat boots 7,700 miles from the front lines smack of comic opera and macho imagery. Franks and his men appear ready to pick up arms and meet the enemy...
...Gore-Tex waterproof fabric found in all sorts of outdoor clothing--arises from a unique structure with no fixed hierarchy, few titles and no formal job descriptions. Any "associate" (the company doesn't use the word employee) can speak directly to any other without going through a chain of command. And together the 6,000 associates own the company. Sound like pie in the sky? The system has worked superbly for 44 years. Despite the recession last year, sales at Gore, based in Newark, Del., reached $1.4 billion, up from $1.3 billion...
...front of five other boys. For solace, Yuichi listens to pop idol Lily Chou-Chou and constructs his own identity in an online chat room devoted to her. Yuichi befriends a pianist named Yoko (Ayumi Ito) and she becomes his real-life Lily. But at bully Hoshino's command, Yoko is raped by a gang of the boys. She strips herself of femininity by shaving her head and wearing a coarse tweed cap to school, and Yuichi invests himself ever more deeply in the Lily website. "Like an endless loop I keep on falling. I hate everyone, but I like...