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...predecessors, when asked, Petraeus and Odierno are quick to list what isn't working well. Iraqi security forces remain unable to mount operations without the logistical help of U.S. forces. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is on the run, but it has not been routed, and it still enjoys free rein in some parts of the country. Murder, death threats and kidnappings are still commonplace; more than 100,000 sections of concrete car-bomb barriers now snake around Baghdad's neighborhoods. And in something of an understatement, even Petraeus calls the progress toward political reconciliation "tenuous." The largest Sunni bloc...
...lighter. Its second base, Camp Hadrian, with 400 troops, is at Deh Rewood, 50 km to the west. Two forward operating bases are also within 40 km of the capital. Four small U.S. bases lie further out, but beyond these secure zones, say locals, the Taliban have almost free rein...
...power, she did almost nothing to help the liberal causes she espoused so enthusiastically to the Western media. Instead, it was under her watch that Pakistan's secret service, the ISI, helped arm the Taliban and facilitate its rise to power in Afghanistan. And she did nothing to rein in the agency's disastrous policy of training Islamist jihadis to do the ISI's dirty work elsewhere. As a young correspondent covering the conflict in Kashmir in the late 1980s and early '90s, I saw how, during her premiership, Pakistan sidelined the Kashmiris' secular resistance movement and instead gave...
...endowment officials became a heated issue after two of HMC’s top officials, David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels, each earned more than $30 million in 2003. When the salaries became public, some alumni threatened to reduce their donations to Harvard if the University failed to rein in the high compensation...
...issue after two of HMC's top officials, David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels, each earned more than $30 million in 2003. When the salaries became public, a group of seven alumni from the Class of 1969 threatened to reduce their donations to Harvard if the University failed to rein in the high compensation...