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...Bush came to Iraq to thank the troops and to see for himself what progress they are making against the insurgency. During his seven hours on the ground, he was greeted respectfully, sometimes enthusiastically. By most accounts morale is indeed high, particularly in Anbar province, where victories over Al Qaeda in the past year have buoyed the spirits of soliders on the ground. But as Bush's briefing at al Asad air base indicated, the armed forces have limits on how long and hard they can fight...
...greater danger in the Craig scandal is that it could further alienate the party's social conservative base, said Stephen Schneck, head of the politics department at Catholic University in Washington. "Republican leaders are frantic, fearing a cataclysmic collapse of the perceived moral high ground vis-?-vis the Democrats among Evangelicals and Catholics - not only among swing voters, but among the base," said Schneck...
...While Craig's departure will likely move media coverage of the scandal from the front page to Page 10, it still leaves the Republicans facing a tougher challenge than ever the difficulty in regaining the high ground with their own base over the next 16 months...
...golden age during the 1950s and 1960s in America, and the Middle East today - sexually repressed conservative societies dominated by religion and an ideological cold war. Interviewed last week at the band's studio in Gemmayze, a formerly working-class neighborhood of garages and crumbling townhouses that's become ground zero for Beirut's young and restless, Haber places the Beirut rock scene in a wider Mideast cultural context: "At the end of the day, sex, drugs, and rock and roll means freedom...
...everything assembler had to evolve into a more cooperative, power-sharing systems integrator. Opening its eyes and ears to client partners is one lesson that Boeing (now based in Chicago) has learned. And it wasn't an easy one. Not long ago, the company was under fire for losing ground to Airbus, based in Toulouse, France, the competitor that had just primed its ascendancy by investing $10 billion in a modern-day Spruce Goose, the 555-seat A380. In 2003 a paper by two professors at the State University of New York at Buffalo even suggested that Boeing would...