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Though the operations in Karachi, Bagram and New York State count as clear successes, they also suggest just how arduous the process of defeating al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups will be. Investigators are operating like children trying to understand the night sky, picking off one constellation at a time--there's Orion, there's the Big Dipper--without being able to see the pattern of the universe. Still, we know far more about Islamic terrorism than we did a year ago; and each week, we learn a little more...
...start-ups like WaveSmith are finding their first foothold abroad, especially in Japan and Korea. Those countries haven't escaped the global tech collapse, but their governments and companies continue to spend, especially on broadband Internet access and third-generation wireless technology. But as always in global business, connections count...
Turner's first job at Wal-Mart: cashier, store No. 231, Ada, Okla. But he did not count pennies for long. At 29 he became the youngest top executive in company history, and now Turner, 37, has been assigned to turn around Sam's Club, Wal-Mart's lagging membership-warehouse chain. Sam's profits rose just 3% last quarter, in contrast to 17% at Wal-Mart's main discount stores...
...Washington is the movement "toward the goal of surprise, deception and shock effect in the opening phase of a campaign," according to a July Pentagon report. China's strategy is simple: take advantage of America's distance from China by attacking it early, possibly in Japan, raising the body count higher than Washington can accept and buying time to force Taiwan to negotiate. "Active Defense" is laid out in a new book, Zhanyi Xue, edited by senior P.L.A. officers and considered China's new doctrinal manual. It authorizes the Chinese military to fire its missiles first, not only if "separatists...
With the Crimson in the huddle. On more than one of Harvard’s fourth-down conversion attempts, a large portion of the Harvard student section was standing up and cheering, despite Rose’s motion for quiet so that his teammates could hear the snap count...