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...less of a concern if the U.S. had more confidence in the Iraqi troops. But the recent rise in sectarian tensions has contributed to a deep uncertainty about which Iraqis the U.S. can trust - even in what was once the safest place in Baghdad. Sitting at a heavy oak desk in the Ministry of Defense, a senior Iraqi general concedes that his own troops, who guard the maze of blast walls leading into this corner of the Amber Zone, have questionable loyalties. The troops, he says, are underequipped, "not well trained, not professional," and "can be loyal to a political...
...though Merkel can be ruthless with long-winded colleagues. "When I met her alone it was like meeting a leading business figure," SAP's Kagermann tells Time. "She is very effective at managing discussion." Merkel also likes to keep her channels of communication open. She often abandons the desk in her vast Chancellery office and works instead from an oval conference table that puts her on a par with colleagues. She prefers visiting staff to summoning them to her office. And while she can be stilted in media interviews, she is hooked on text messaging, requiring even the most tech...
...could offer one piece of advice to the class of 2010, it would be this: take your science and math classes early. The longer your TI-86 is left to gather dust in your bottom desk drawer, the more difficult those problem sets and midterms will be. Oh, and don’t be fooled by the Cores with cushy-sounding names...
...city. Side-by-side with dozens of men, women and children, we walked through metal barriers lined with barbed wire in a cattle-like procession. We passed by the window of a security-check area where we could see two female Israeli soldiers lounging with their feet on the desk reading copies of Cosmo. The apparent normalcy, to both the Palestinians and Israelis, of this institutionalized humiliation and apartheid sickened me. For the life of me, I could not justify the brutality of a giant wall littered with barbed-wire, electric fences and armed teenage soldiers. The massive concrete abomination...
...private meeting with International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde on March 9, the longtime Illinois representative said that as a courtesy he would introduce the bill the Administration wanted to amend the Atomic Energy Act, but he warned Rice to expect the final legislation to arrive at Bush's desk with a number of conditions...