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...starters, the U.S. will have to take up the slack left by departing allies. When Spain's new Socialist Prime Minister held firm on his campaign promise to withdraw his 1,300 troops, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, which rely on the Spanish for command and control, decided to bug out as well. Thailand threatened to withdraw its aid workers if attacked, and even faithful Australia is down to 850 of the 2,000 troops it originally shipped over last year. Secretary of State Colin Powell called leaders of roughly half the 34 coalition countries to try to prevent further...
...forces to whom the U.S. had hoped to turn over more responsibility were proving barely competent. U.S. officers on the ground in Fallujah, Najaf and other hot spots warned of a level of training and coordination by rebel bands that kept U.S. troops tied down. Plus, there is no slack in U.S. force strength. "Everybody's committed," says an Army officer who has tracked U.S. troop levels in Iraq over the past year. "If civil war erupts between the Kurds and Sunnis, who goes there? There is nobody. How is it possible we are fighting a war and there...
...Upscale-sandwich chain Panera Bread, which is based in Richmond Heights, Mo., will soon debut six low-carb products. "Other people are rushing into it. We want to make sure the quality is consistent with who we are," says CEO Ron Shaich. Canadian flour company Hayhoe Mills is combatting slack demand by marketing its new low-carb wheat-bran flour to commercial bakers and consumers. Cost...
...case she forgot what high school catfights were like, her young co-star provided a case study. During filming, Lohan, 17, got into a public feud over a boy with fellow teen diva Hilary Duff, 16. Fey, whose day job is mocking celebrities, cuts the girls some slack. "Sometimes I think Us Weekly should leave them alone," Fey says. "They're just kids. If notes I wrote about some girl in ninth grade were in Us Weekly, I'd be really bummed. Actually, I'd be really psyched." It's that hint of cruelty, that gleeful leaking of darkness that...
...cost taxpayers €15 billion in subsidies. The findings were widely seen as politically partisan. Still bruised from the polls, Raffarin swiftly reassured the public that no 35-hour reform was imminent. That doesn't surprise many French business owners. "The ability to adapt [the] workforce to peak and slack periods was good, but I knew when I applied the 35-hour week that I wouldn't make new hires," says Patrick Roos, who employs 38 at his custom-made shutter company in Burgundy. Though he says he'd love to see more flexible rules, Roos predicts that reform...