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...report calls for the number of U.S. troops embedded with Iraqi units to increase to as many as 20,000 over the next year. The report argues that boosting the number of advisers will lead to improvements in the quality of Iraqi forces and pave the way for a pullback of all U.S. troops from the front lines...
...revealed: the Iraq Study Group will recommend a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Sort of. According to leaks of its expected findings, the Baker-Hamilton commission plans to call for a "pullback" of as many as 75,000 troops from the front lines. To those who believe that the only sensible option left in Iraq is for the U.S. to begin the process of extricating itself, the Baker group's proposal would seem to provide some reason for optimism. But before those people get too excited, they should read the fine print. The Baker plan reportedly doesn't specify...
MARTINEZ: I'm very skeptical of the recent reporting that suggests any kind of pullback or U-turn [of women in the workforce]. I think the progress will continue in terms of greater equality in professional fields. I think, anytime you have progress, there are periods of sort of assimilating and digesting the things that have occurred. I think, when people look at traditional employment data, it doesn't sufficiently take into account nontraditional forms of employment that occur with both genders. That's why there's been a lot of debate about some of the unemployment statistics in recent...
...economy slowing and the Fed?s rate hikes near an end, that seems unlikely. These stocks won?t continue their torrid run indefinitely, but Muhlenkamp believes they will continue to rise. If he?s right on this group-and he has been for half a decade-the occasional pullback should be viewed as an invitation to join his house party...
...were holding out for written Israeli assurances that three further Israeli withdrawals in the West Bank countryside would take place according to a specific schedule, ending preferably by next September or, at the latest, the following January. The Israelis were prepared to commit to a date for the first pullback only, preferring to keep the timing of the other two as a card to play in later negotiations. Says the talks insider: "Arafat created something of an artificial crisis at the last minute, but that's his traditional negotiating tactic. The shooting maybe gave him an excuse, but he doesn...