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...months of occupation, U.S. forces had made several attempts to kick-start Iraq's military. Many had faltered over financial issues: At one stage last year, hundreds of new military recruits went AWOL after learning that their monthly pay was well below that of regular police officers. Others quit after determining that there was barely a corner of Iraq in which they were not prime targets for assassination - and that they were a lot more poorly equipped than their foes...
...jail for diverting public funds, inciting civil disobedience and associating with criminals; in Kigali, Rwanda. Bizimungu, a member of Rwanda's majority Hutu ethnic group, came to power with the Tutsi rebels who ended the extremist Hutu-led killing of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He quit the presidency in 2000, and was arrested after forming a political party. Defenders allege his conviction is politically motivated...
...family, it seemed like a blatant power grab, and when its members replied, "No, grazie," he quit in a huff. The top job went instead to Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the head of Ferrari and a family intimate for three decades. Two young Agnelli cousins were elevated too. John Elkann, 28, was appointed Fiat deputy chairman, and his cousin Andrea Agnelli, also 28, joined the board. Another long-standing Agnelli manager was quickly named CEO. "The family moved very fast," says a person close to the Agnellis. "Morchio was a bit Napoleonic. The new men are more into team building...
...growing beards and putting 'Allah is Great' bumper stickers on their cars," says a longtime American resident. "A suit and a tie is tantamount to wearing a bulls-eye." For the third time in six weeks, the State Department issued a warning "strongly urging" some 25,000 Americans to quit the country - and a U.S. official told Time that the advisory could remain in place for years. "Al-Qaeda tells [the U.S.] to leave, and so you leave," says a dismayed senior government adviser. "This hands the terrorists a victory...
Finding himself in search of a new activity his junior year, after having quit the football team, Corker set out to revive House spirit in Mather by applying lessons from the House’s own past: as co-head of Mather House Council (HoCo) in 2003, his mantra was to make Mather regain its bygone reputation as the Party House, or, as Corker likes to put it, “the House that beer built...