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...vehicles. They didn't do any of the local governance that Petraeus had done. They were occupiers, not builders, and put Iraqis in control of civic order. Within months, Mosul descended into chaos. "You win this thing with boots on the ground," a Stryker Brigade officer told a Knight-Ridder reporter in January 2005, "not by throwing more vehicles at the place...
...mother of three is living market research. "I hear things like, 'Mom, we need to buy a lacrosse stick,'" Schneider, 45, says. "So I look online." That's an impulse she hopes to infuse in all households as head of Yahoo!'s new Marketplaces classifieds unit. Previously at Knight Ridder, Schneider says improved search capability and personalization should push consumers and advertisers to the Web. --By Kathleen Kingsbury...
...spoke to TIME, standing on the sidewalk near the courthouse, the interview was interrupted by screaming. Five feet away, a young American journalist from Knight Ridder had attracted the attention of security forces by taking photographs. Five or six of them jumped on her and began grabbing for her camera, hitting her and reaching down her shirt as she stood pinned against a parked...
...While DeFede was in the midst of transcription, the executives at the Herald were holding a transcontinental conversation with Executive Editor Tom Fiedler, who was in San Jose, California at the annual meeting of the editors of the Knight Ridder chain, of which the Herald is a part. Says Fiedler, ?I was called out of the meeting literally minutes after 6 p.m. to be told about the suicide in the lobby...
...first time such an incident had ever happened at the Knight Ridder newspapers, Fiedler says. ?Not within Knight Ridder is there a precedent for somebody coming forward saying I have done wrong and I did it on purpose,? he says. From Fiedler's vantage point, DeFede had committed an unpardonable journalistic sin that would have ramifications years in the future. ?Jim had committed a major breach of trust knowingly with a source in the news,? he says ?This was almost certain to come out publicly.? That's when they decided they should fire DeFede...