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...former deputy to Jay Garner, the first, short-lived civilian administrator in Iraq, says he thought the plan was to employ most of the soldiers in reconstruction tasks after Saddam fell. But civilians at the Pentagon and in the office of the Vice President agreed with Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the former exile opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, that full de-Baathification of the military was essential. In May, two weeks after Bremer took over as proconsul in Baghdad, he ordered the army completely demobilized. Many U.S. officials involved in post-Saddam Iraq now feel this was a poor...
...have programs that include gender and/or sexuality in their titles. Scholarship in women’s studies has in recent decades turned toward an increased focus on the ways in which identities are socially constructed. Theories that today deconstruct the role of gender, race, sexuality and class identity, employ similar approaches as those initially used to explore the role of women. This includes the recognition that gender regulates the behavior of both men and women, and that it is consequently difficult to study women independently of questions of gender and sexuality...
...streamlining operations, Katz argues that such improvements have so far been confined mainly to large companies. That's good news for lots of punters, but it is less significant for the economy as a whole. Katz notes that according to the Finance Ministry, Japan's 5,600 largest companies employ only 11% of the workforce and account for just 17% of GDP. And although large companies enjoyed a 17% jump in operating profits last year, small companies suffered a 12% drop...
...Crimson’s readers could certainly concoct other examples that employ the organizing techniques and fun of flash mobs to strengthen social capital or promote political and cultural change. Flash mobs have an “all dressed up with no place to go” quality; let’s give them a destination...
...caliber bullet," says Mike Nash, the company's vice president for security. Still, a Bill Gates memo last year admitted Windows needed to be more "trustworthy." The company placed ads in national newspapers last week reminding users to turn on Windows XP's internal firewall and employ the operating system's automatic-update feature. That is, you can allow the company to fix its unintended mistakes constantly and quietly in the background. Windows XP does not ship with this feature turned on because of the Big Brother factor. But attitudes may be changing. Says Nash: "Customers are more willing...