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Harvard has no control over the iShares fund’s investments. The fund allocates assets according to a formula developed by a joint venture of the Financial Times, the London Stock Exchange, and the Chinese news agency Xinhua...
...brass isn't keen on a surge, they also know a bargaining chip when they see one. While Rumsfeld was in charge, the Joint Chiefs were muffled, too scared to say boo in public if it meant crossing the civilian boss. But in early December, once Rumsfeld had resigned, the Army and Marine Corps chiefs increasingly went public with their long-standing gripes that Iraq has stretched their forces to the breaking point, damaging recruiting and diminishing readiness. Bush moved quickly to quell this startling revolt: within days he hinted that he might ask Congress to enlarge the overall size...
...head of the Marine Corps has openly questioned the wisdom of the move without an overarching strategy. "We would fully support, I think, as the Joint Chiefs, the idea of putting more troops into Iraq if there is a solid military reason for doing that, if there is something to be gained," Gen. James Conway, who became Commandant of the Marine Corps six weeks ago, said to reporters recently. "We do not believe that just adding numbers for the sake of adding numbers - just thickening the mix - is necessarily...
...other members of the military's top brass are quietly questioning the lack of a clear-cut strategy. "What is the objective? Does the President want Iraq to look like Iowa?" asks one retired senior officer. "What has finally put some backbone in the Joint Chiefs is that, to date, there has not been a realistic endstate identified that matches the reality on the ground. They still don't get it. Tactics without a strategy are a recipe for disaster...
...Style is as much on everyone's mind as substance. Many were trying to make nice, as members spoke endlessly of the virtues of bipartisanship and pledged to work together. South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn, the new House majority whip and his minority counterpart, Blunt, held a joint event, with Clyburn accepting an actual whip and the pair praising each other. Clyburn said he and Blunt "would continue to have our good working relationship." Blunt, the man in charge of blocking the Democrats' agenda, not only extolled Clyburn, but said "there's a lot to admire about Nancy Pelosi." Clyburn...