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...NCAA Tournament. To take the comparison even further, that group’s first entry into the win column also came at the expense of New Hampshire in the third game of the season. Perplexing, however, are the Crimson’s struggles when considering its track record and personnel. The desire to win ought to be there. Coming within two successful penalty kicks of advancing to the second round of college soccer’s biggest stage is healthy motivation, to say the least. The players are there too. Yes, Harvard lost key graduating seniors in the midfield...
...Balance the Bureaucracy Tokyo's bureaucrats have long called the shots on everything from budget formulation to foreign policy. The bureaucracy can be virtually impervious to change partly because its members are not accountable to elected officials - there's no personnel overhaul with a change in administration. The DPJ has vowed to implement some checks and balances by expanding the power of the Prime Minister's office and the Cabinet. But it's a delicate job that could easily go sour. (See pictures of Japan in 1989 and Japan...
...Americans and other Western expats quit in the first six months of its contract, which meant there had to be constant training of new staff and a dissolution of any semblance of team cohesion. At one point, 18 guards were not at their posts, requiring embassy personnel to be redeployed to fill critical gaps. The State Department said it docked the company $2.4 million for this. The poor English skills of many of the Gurkhas required cross-cultural pantomiming. (Read "A Return Visit to Kabul: Is Time Running...
...night-vision equipment, to secure portions of the road between the embassy and the guard base in Camp Sullivan several miles off. But this action violated ArmorGroup's contract, which is only for static security - that is, guards at specified posts. (The role of traveling bodyguards for embassy personnel is contracted out to another firm, Xe, the company formerly known as Blackwater.) What's more, the mission left remaining embassy security personnel without any night-vision equipment, or "largely night blind," as the POGO letter...
...website, which has also showcased the abuse allegations, was also arrested. The day before, authorities raided an office run by a Mousavi aide that recently said it had documented the deaths of 72 protesters in the weeks-long protests that shook the capital. (Authorities say 41 people, including security personnel, died during the prolonged crackdown after Ahmadinejad's disputed election victory, though human-rights groups put the number in the hundreds...