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Insurgent activity persists in eastern and northern Iraq, and almost every day Baghdad still shakes with bomb explosions. Whether this lingering violence will rise as U.S. forces pull out remains the great unknown. Iraqi security forces are more numerous and stronger than they have been since the U.S. military started building them up roughly six years ago, and they may be able to hold back the lingering insurgent movement...
...ended the night as the team’s leading scorer, but junior center Doug Miller had one of his more dominant stretches in a Crimson uniform when he scored on four of Harvard’s first six second-half possessions to pull his team to within one with 16:24 to play in regulation. The junior started with a pretty spin move in the lane for an easy two, then hit two free throws after pulling down the offensive board on a missed layup from...
...Asia will go through a vicious cycle because its middle classes will be decimated as the recession bites as hard in the East as it will in the West. But, Asia has no buffer, a long-standing and vast number of consumers which may pull back their spending...
Saul Villegas, a director at the Bolivian Mining Corporation (COMIBOL), the operative wing of the Mining Ministry, seems to agree. "We know that we lack know-how and that we need investment to pull this off," says Villegas, pointing out that the government has formed a scientific committee made up of auto experts and representatives from car companies worldwide...
...papers about what to do at this agency or how to deal with that policy, but that was an extension of how Clinton's mind works," says one of the many Obama aides who is a veteran of the Clinton Administration. "Clinton had this great horizontal intelligence. He could pull an idea from a meeting he had in northern Italy and apply it to spreading broadband service through Iowa. It was amazing but not exactly efficient. Obama is more vertical. He pushes the process along, streamlines it. We had one 25-to-50-page policy paper for every agency...