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...troop complement in Iraq by next summer, on current indicators, looks more than a little optimistic. As Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it in a recent memo to colleagues leaked last week to the media, what lies ahead for the U.S. in Iraq is a "long, hard slog...
...pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog." Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, in a memo to top-ranking defense officials leaked to USA Today...
...being managed to minimize the "Gorbachev effect" - getting applause abroad for things unpopular at home. And no matter how Iraq resolves, it is likely to be Blair's last big foreign adventure. There's no other place Bush might fight where he will follow. That leaves Blair the hard slog of Labour's core mission: fixing the public services. Some improvements are beginning to show; the best British 15-year-olds now perform close to the top of international league tables, and last week a doctors' panel noted big gains in the speed of getting anti-clotting drugs to heart...
...Trekkers, though, are scrupulously monitored. Much of Sikkim is forbidden to foreigners, and access to the rest is governed by permits. Our trek was a seven-day slog toward the Goecha La plateau to see the sun rise on the world's third highest mountain: the mighty, 8,586-meter Kanchenjunga. Apart from a guide, it required three permits. But even if it wasn't illegal, wandering alone is a brow-furrowing prospect, for trails quickly extend beyond the reach of telephones. Dialing air rescue in emergencies is not an option, which is why, by the time we started, staff...
...driver and guide to take us cross-country from the capital, Ulan Bator, to the northwestern Lake Hovsgol in a Swiss Alpine-like region of reindeer herders near the Russian border. Though the trip is scheduled for two days, it takes four to grind over dried-out riverbeds and slog through mud bogs between hills that roll like waves and crest into craggy rock. The land is so empty at times that a mere stand of trees is welcome relief...