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...withdrawal could help the U.S. redeploy to fight terrorists elsewhere. Iraq has placed a particular strain on forces belonging to the Pentagon and the CIA. The U.S. Special Operations Command, which Rumsfeld has ordered to lead the Pentagon's part of the war on terrorism, has 88% of its 7,000-odd commandos deployed overseas assigned to the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. The CIA's clandestine service has only about 900 to 1,000 operatives, a large number of whom have rotated in and out of its Baghdad station, which has had as many as 500 spies and analysts...
...time. Now, both his talents and his luck have run out. The "minor cerebrovascular accident" he suffered several months ago was a telling reminder that next week he turns 73. He recovered well, but for a man who has always looked 10 years younger than he actually is, the strain has been showing. He appeared on television last week in a somber mood, wearing severe eyeglasses instead of his usual contact lenses, and expressed himself like a politician from a generation ago, off-track and infelicitous. Chirac no longer looked like the colossal force he once was, but like...
Mahinda Rajapakse's win, with 50.3% of the vote, in Sri Lanka's presidential election last Friday could determine whether the strife-ridden country sinks deeper into conflict. The signs are not good: a four-year cease-fire with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is under severe strain, with internal conflict in the rebel-controlled east and political killings blamed on the Tigers in the Sinhalese south. Rajapakse, 60, who says the peace process has been too soft on the Tigers, proposes ripping up the agreement and starting talks from scratch. Sri Lanka's stock market plunged...
...future. So far, the new virus has shown no evidence of reassortment. The fact that the outbreak happened before Hong Kong's regular flu season reduced opportunities for reassortment, as did the prompt slaughter of the chickens. What researchers fear most is that someone infected with a common flu strain will also become infected with H5, and thus become an inadvertent mixing chamber for the production of a wholly new virus...
...said Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08. “You can only play video games and I guess watch movies in it. It’s just kind of limited.” Despite these feelings, some house members view the lounge as a way to alleviate strain caused by space shortages, which will benefit gamers and non-gamers alike. According to Terry, the gaming room, in its present state, may not survive the trial period. “Keep in mind that incidental spaces like this in our House, as in all Houses, are fungible...