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...think the military's strategy has changed in the five years since this book came out? I have no doubt that research in this field is still going on. Someone sent me this quote from General Stanley McChrystal about how we have to show the enemy our good side, and it seems very similar to passages in Channon's manual about sparkly eyes and baby lambs. I think it's rather nice the military would try out all this crazy stuff, because if the U.S. Army doesn't try this stuff, nobody's going to - and maybe something wonderful could...
...credit has also been a fraudster's dream. A recent report from the Treasury Department's inspector general identified 167 suspected cases of fraud and was looking into more than 100,000 potential civil violations related to the tax credit. In one case, a 4-year-old child was able to claim the credit. (See the top 10 tax dodgers...
...everyone is enthusiastic, and doubts about Chrysler's future were reinforced Tuesday when the company reported a stunning 30% drop in sales for October. By contrast, both the newly profitable Ford Motor Co., and General Motors Corp., which had followed Chrysler into bankruptcy, reported modest sales increases during what was the best month for new cars sales in more than year. "The industry showed signs of improvement this month, which is a trend we expect to continue for the remainder of the year," said Fred Diaz, the top executive in Chrysler Sales Organization, as he scrambled to put a good...
Lawrence N. Shulman, chief of general oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, also stressed the importance of breast cancer awareness in the developing world. “Unless you have an educated public, women are never going to come for care because they’re not going to know what to look for,” he said...
Perhaps a class on the South might help address Harvard students’ ignorance and help us in our quest to make General Education requirements more relevant; courses like “Southern Literature and Culture in the United States” seeking to illuminate this heart of darkness do exist, but they are rare. Alternatively, the Office of Career Services could encourage students to explore a broader range of job opportunities in economically vibrant areas of the South that remain relatively unexplored here. Or the dining halls could replace Nestea with real, brewed, Southern-style iced tea. There...