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...State of Iraq's Army "When will they be ready?" is the wrong question [May 12]. The U.S. pays for the service of Iraqi soldiers and gets a weak return for low pay and very little inspiration. An army can become strong only when it is instilled with a sense of pride. And that cannot grow while the U.S. calls the shots. It can grow only when the U.S. summons the courage to let go of Iraq. Paul Sievers, MUNICH, GERMANY...
...also put an end to cheap credit. Mortgage lenders were happy to coddle British homeowners with easy money during the boom years, helping to push the rate at which U.K. house prices rose over the past decade far higher than economic drivers like income growth and low interest rates could justify. Now banks are throttling back. They have slashed the range of available mortgages and cut the amount they'll lend relative to the value of a property; no more can U.K. customers borrow more than a home is worth, as many had done...
...potential PR disaster was averted by President Medvedev issuing a decree to automatically grant visas to all British fans holding a valid ticket to the game. Obtaining visas had become more difficult in recent months as Moscow-London relations sank to a low ebb in a series of tit-for-tat moves following Britain rejecting Russia's demands to extradite tycoon Boris Berezovsky and Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev, while Russia turned down British demands to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, prime suspect in the murder of former Russian security officer Aleksander Litvinenko. It would be premature, however, to judge the blanket visa...
...they may be less likely to make on-the-job errors - like administering the wrong medication to a patient. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the study suggests that people at the bottom of the workplace totem pole don't end up there for lack of ability, but rather that being low and powerless in a hierarchy leads to more mistakes. It's a finding that surprised even the study's authors. "I'll be totally honest. When we started this research," says Adam Galinsky, a co-author and a social psychology professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University...
...found the opposite was true. The students who were primed to feel devoid of power actually performed significantly worse than the powerful group - perhaps because the former group felt, as the study concludes, "guided by situational constraints... rather than by their own goals and values." In other words, low-power participants did not, in a way, feel in control of their own ability to complete tasks, feeling instead that they were "the means for other people's goals...