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...surge is working is akin to saying we found WMD in Iraq and New Orleans has been rebuilt. The measure of success for the surge was to have been progress in passing legislation in Iraq. Despite the expenditure of billions of dollars and the lost lives of more than 900 brave soldiers and countless Iraqi citizens, very little has been accomplished on the political front. In a few months, we may have the same number of troops stationed in Iraq as before the surge and still have to decide if we want to follow the recommendations of the Iraq Study...
...same day in mid-November, Europe's biggest consumer-electronics company invited all of its 125,000 workers worldwide to stop work and instead think about simplifying it. (The brightest ideas would be shared company-wide.) Dubbed "Simplicity Day," it was also part of a longer-term work in progress. Over the past few years, Philips has struggled to assemble the right collection of businesses and the structure with which to run them. The company has shed unwieldy chunks of an overweight, underperforming portfolio. In a classic make-or-buy decision, Philips dumped its chips and electronics-components units...
...personal trainer--can hurt over time. Research at the University of Saskatchewan shows that while a trainer may ensure that we stick to a fitness program, our resolve melts away once the training sessions end. In these cases, we become so dependent on someone else to monitor our progress that we never develop what psychologists call the self-efficacy to follow a plan...
...Harris said that while progress in creating courses may seem sluggish at present, he hopes that two to three classes per category will be available for students this fall...
...Catholic daily Avvenire, Bertone recalled his lengthy dinner with the Jesuit-educated Fidel. "It was a very long conversation. We spoke of many things, of hunger and of poverty spread through the world, and the need of a greater solidarity among people and governments. We spoke of wars and progress." Bertone said that Castro spoke highly of Benedict. "'I like this Pope,' he told me, 'He is a good person. I have understood that immediately seeing his face, the face of an angel...