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...strong 2003, and corporate profits in many industries exceeded expectations, so why haven't companies that started outsourcing as a way to cut costs reversed course and brought the jobs back home? That might have happened after other recessions, but this shift is different. To some extent, companies are gun-shy about committing to full-time workers and the attendant fringe benefits. Instead of rushing to expand their computer systems and hiring people to maintain them, firms are keeping their outsourcing companies on speed dial...
...daughter. At 7:45 a.m. on Nov. 11, Dhahir, a Baghdad police officer, dropped Diana off at her high school. Sitting in one of his unit's blue-and-white Nissan pickups, he watched as she walked toward class to make sure she got inside safely. Suddenly a submachine gun fitted with a silencer opened fire from across the street. Glass shattered as the windshield became a web of cracks. Dhahir's driver took a bullet in the head and another in the neck and died. Dhahir was luckier. Three slugs went into his left shoulder and one punched...
...power vacuum left by the fallen police state. Some are taking the law into their own hands. Almost a year after the Americans arrived, newspapers still report the slayings of former Baathists, scientists and professors, as political and private scores are settled not by the gavel but by the gun. In recent weeks, attacks against police have continued unabated. On Feb. 10 a car bomb exploded outside an Iskandariyah police station 30 miles south of Baghdad, killing at least 55 people, most of whom were lined up outside waiting to join the force. The same day three policemen died when...
...doubt when they reach the right house. Scrawled in red paint across the length of a mud-brick outer wall is a warning: THIS HOUSE IS WANTED FOR BLOOD. Abdul Aziz Salman, a local grocer, says he painted the message after he watched the two men who live there gun down his brother at his cigarette stall just across the narrow lane. Salman looks on as the officers approach the house. They calmly keep a gathering crowd at bay, then stack up in front of the door and crash through like a well-practiced SWAT team. The house is empty...
...Council. Gun was going to plead in defense that her leak was necessary to stop casualties in a war - and try to put the shaky legal case for war on trial with her. Prosecutors calculated they couldn't persuade every member of a jury that her leak wasn't an act of conscience they should excuse - and now the government must review its obviously ineffective Official Secrets Act, whose draconian provisions against divulging classified information are not doing much good. As investigations proceed on both sides of the Atlantic about intelligence that was faulty and perhaps deliberately skewed, both European...