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...matter of people losing confidence in Bush and the war. From the beginning, many of us had no faith to lose. Your story noted that General John Abizaid, head of the U.S. military's Central Command, exhorts the troops to keep the faith and emphasizes the good things that are happening in Iraq. That might change people's perception of the war, but it won't change the reality of it. Jorge Ovalle Normal...
While Human Resources is growing in prominence and HUCTW looks ahead optimistically, the MTC is threatening to strike and HUSPMGU is losing the last of its security guards to outsourcing. Spending priorities at the top of the command post continue to change, and labor at Harvard finds itself at a critical juncture as the academic, and perhaps more importantly, fiscal year comes to a close. The University’s expansion into Allston stands to introduce thousands of new jobs in the long run while immediately threatening the security of existing workers...
...reaction to Allawi's appointment highlighted the near impossibility of choosing an unelected Iraqi government that can command wide support. Almost from the moment they endorsed Allawi, Governing Council members rushed to declare that he was no one's top choice. "He's a compromise candidate," says council member Mahmoud Othman. "Nobody wanted him at the start, but in the end nobody rejected him." Allawi is a former member of Saddam's Baath Party who left Iraq for London in the mid-'70s and was later attacked by an ax-wielding assassin when he refused Saddam's demands to return...
...lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility; at the worst, lying, incompetence and corruption." RETIRED GENERAL ANTHONY ZINNI, former head of U.S. Central Command, in a new book, Battle Ready, about his military career, written in collaboration with Tom Clancy...
...minds of Iraq's citizens, is America's other war, and it is not going quite according to plan. You could say that Halliburton, which holds an exclusive deal to support U.S. soldiers and by far the largest share of contracts for rebuilding Iraq's crippled infrastructure, is command central in the battle to rebuild the country. But the firm has become a lightning rod for criticism of the U.S. presence in Iraq. Thanks in part to Vice President Dick Cheney's five-year tenure as the company's CEO, Halliburton's contract with the U.S. government has been unable...