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...curriculum. B.R.N. and other insurgent groups were neutralized by government amnesties by the 1990s, but their cause has been taken up by a new breed of militant, groomed by religious leaders and hardened by the military solution Thaksin pushed in the south. (The most vivid symbol of Thaksin's iron-fisted approach was the October 2004 Tak Bai incident, when, during and after a mass protest, 85 Muslims were either shot or suffocated to death in army trucks-compounding Muslim hatred of Bangkok...
...ranking commander of the group in Iraq. When the U.S. leaves, many Iraqis say, they can deal with the terrorists and their patrons more harshly. The Anbar Salvation Council has been aggressively targeting al-Qaeda in that province, denying it safe haven in places it once controlled with an iron fist. The Administration has boasted in recent weeks that the Sunnis in Anbar are attacking elements of al-Qaeda. So why would that end if the U.S. withdrew? "If we withdraw from Iraq, a lot of the tensions we see today are going to be directed against al-Qaeda...
Alegría was driving a Lexus RX10 in the Puerto Rican city of El Condado at around 5 a.m. on June 29 when he crashed the vehicle into an electrical post, a tree and an iron door. [SEE CORRECTION...
That's not to say there's no pressure on costs. Reithofer is a process engineer by training and set up the customized-production system. He's insisting on efficiency gains of at least 5% annually, "an iron goal," as he puts it. Every year BMW sits down with its suppliers to discuss specific savings targets, but it also canvasses them for creative ideas about possible cost cuts they can undertake together. Klaus Richter, a former McKinsey consultant who's now BMW's procurement man, says some 10,000 such suggestions have been made in the past three years...
...cooking “compulsion,” as a friend once described it, earned me the predicted title of “Iron Chef” in my high school yearbook’s “In the Future” section. It runs in the family. My older brother was well known around his office last fall for routinely supplying homemade baked goods. Together, we’ve even devised a bake-off to develop the perfect brownie recipe, complete with ballots for taste testers...