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...Marines to Afghanistan. The Canadian government of Stephen Harper took the unusual step of threatening to pull out of Afghanistan if NATO did not produce additional reinforcements for operations in the south of the country, though it has since agreed to extend beyond 2009. To keep pace with increasing demand, Britain is being forced to keep its troops in place for longer and redeploy them sooner. Says Bastian Giegerich, an analyst at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, "There's thinking about how training might have to happen on a faster schedule ... This is not good for morale...
...walking, running third behind Bush the Elder and Ross Perot. He knows that April is the silly season in presidential politics, the moment when candidates involved in a bruising primary battle seem weakest and bloodied, as both Hillary Clinton and Obama do now. It's the moment when pundits demand action-"Drop out, Hillary!"-and propound foolish theories. And so I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I'm slouching toward, well, a theory: if this race continues to slide downhill, the answer to the Democratic Party's dilemma may turn out to be Al Gore...
Obama's campaign demanded more answers. "This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an Administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. Our government's duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes. This is a serious matter that merits a complete investigation, and we demand to know who looked at Senator Obama's passport file, for what purpose, and why it took so long for them to reveal this security breach," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton...
...meet the enriched demand, Sunseeker is spending nearly $30 million this year expanding its boatyards in Poole and nearby Portland. Ferretti spent some $74 million last year upgrading its operations to handle increased production, while Azimut-Benetti, another Italian manufacturer, is spending $323 million over the next two years on its facilities. So go ahead, pick your metaphor--clear sailing, running with the tide, full speed ahead--the yachtmakers have it going for them...
There are more superrich than there are superyachts to go around. Damn. "Production capabilities are running behind demand," says Joel Plasco, CEO of Collins Stewart, the private banking group that sponsors the London Boat Show. But scarcity doesn't hurt this industry. The small number of yachts it builds makes it less vulnerable to economic upheaval: manufacturers need only rely on a handful of customers. "It's more difficult for luxury-goods makers who have to sell hundreds of thousands of items," Cannatelli says...