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Even after the Army brings its recruits in, it must struggle with the question of how to train and arm them for the wars of the future. Should the Army continue as a mostly heavy, armored force, or pivot to become a more nimble, fast-deploying outfit? The Pentagon's reluctance earlier this year to send the Army's AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships into battle over Kosovo showed how quickly cold war weapons can become irrelevant. Slowly, the Army is coming to realize that it may be too cumbersome and too complex for future conflicts. The service is weighing...
...appropriated (in Economic Support Funds, separate from the Liberation Act money) to oust Saddam has ended up directly in the hands of Iraqi opposition groups. Rather, Capitol Hill investigators complain, much of the money has gone to high-priced public relations experts and consultants. A somewhat less than ferocious outfit called Quality Support Inc., of Springfield, Va., for example, has received $3.1 million to book hotel rooms, airline tickets and conference halls for opposition meetings. Of that, a State Department document estimates that Quality Support will spend about $670,000 for the seven-month lease at the Cavendish Square office...
...financial conglomerate (1998 assets: $669 billion). Rubin's timing, as usual, is perfect. Just as the former Goldman Sachs investment banker climbs back into the spotlight, Congress is preparing to vote on a historic bill that plays legislative catch-up with Citi's 1998 merger with Travelers, the insurance outfit that also owns Salomon Smith Barney. Rubin never made financial modernization his priority in government; nevertheless he will now help direct an institution sure to be among the bill's principal beneficiaries...
...arrive. I was expecting something, well, more paternalistic. An Army that would take me off the bus with nothing but the clothes on my back, the tar in my lungs and the spare tire around my middle. Take me, mold me, whip me into shape, and, best of all, outfit me with lots of free stuff, everything in tough Army olive and built to last. Yet here was a list, in my "Guide For New Soldiers," of quite a bit I'd need to bring. Among them: Soap and soap case. Toothpaste. Dental floss. Two locks. Two towels and washcloths...
Funk glances down at her nondescript outfit of jeans and a long-sleeve shirt...