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...recent Sunni-Shiite common front has demonstrated that the U.S. military presence in Iraq just isn’t cutting it, especially when the Americans can’t keep effective control of major cities such as Falluja and Ramadi. No longer are occupational troops only forced to quell the small-time operations of Sunni extremists, whose attacks—though demoralizing—were less destructive and more infrequent before the recent assistance of Shiite militia. Rather, the current alliance has resulted in increasing violence and a loss of control in important cities, while continuing to refute President Bush?...
...said last week, "is, Don't go into one of these things and say, maybe we'll be done in a month because it's a humanitarian crisis." His reluctance mirrors the public's: a TIME/CNN poll last week showed that only 34% of respondents favored doing something to quell the violence, while 51% opposed any action. -TIME...
Rage in Fallujah U.S. officials vow to retaliate for the brutal murder and mutilation of four American civilians in Iraq. But can anything quell the simmering anger of Iraqis...
Unable to quell a general Shiite uprising, the U.S. will begin to use more brutal and violent tactics, and solicit the advice of an expert in Shiite subjugation, Saddam Hussein...
...turns out Disney had been floating the idea of splitting the top jobs to quell shareholder grumbling even before the votes were in. Sources tell TIME that Disney made an overture to an influential shareholder advisory group to gauge its support for the idea even before the full magnitude of the revolt was known. Twelve days before the vote count was announced, a lawyer for Disney called Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the proxy advisory group, to see if ISS would change its no-confidence recommendation if the board split the jobs. The conversation ended in seconds. "We didn't even...