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STRETCHED: The military draws from a rare pool of reservists...
...lacing up in Iraq in a matter of months. In a sign of the military's urgent need for personnel as the protracted campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan exhaust U.S. active forces, the Army announced last week that it would draw the extra troops from a rarely used pool of reservists designed for times of national crisis, the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). The Pentagon's decision to order inactive soldiers back to duty is fueling a growing debate about expanding the Army and inspiring emotional comparisons to the draft...
...Lehtinen, who heads Finland's 190,000-member Taxpayers' Association. Cut Waste, Fraud and Abuse Last year the French justice ministry set up several homes for teenage delinquents. For one of the first, it acquired an 18th century château in Normandy with a big park and swimming pool, where it employs 27 people to oversee eight young multiple offenders (one of whom recently escaped). The annual cost to French taxpayers: €1.7 million, not including €610,000 for the château. The acquisition prompted the resignation of all 11 members of the Saint-Denis-le-Thiboult...
...imagining that part from Duck Tales where Scrooge McDuck jackknifes into his mansion’s pool of gold coins. Except, this time, Scrooge was 6’11”, African American, wearing braces, and had reportedly mused about putting Jesus’ cross right over the cutout of Jerry West on the NBA logo...
...identified him as an obvious star in the applicant pool for the assistant professor level,” said Thomas, who is the chair of the classics department...