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...return." Indeed, the best advice for the military to give the President at this point may not be how to "win" in Iraq-but how to withdraw creatively, how to limit Iran's influence in the Shi'ite regions of the south, how to keep special-operations and quick-strike units based in the region, poised to attack al-Qaeda operations on a regular basis. The United States has lost the war in Iraq, but the "long war" against Islamist extremism will surely continue. The most pressing issue now is how not to lose the battles to come...
...tailgate. Saturday’s tailgate was certainly healthier—even with the water shortages—but it would be healthier still to turn the tailgate into a salad-eating contest, or, better still, ban it entirely. We hope that in 2008 the College is able to strike a better balance between safety and trust than it achieved this year...
...company PDVSA, to company directors in a recent closed meeting captured on video and released to the media by Chavez's opponents. The apparent ultimatum poured salt on the opposition's wounds from 2003, when Chavez purged the company of dissidents after they led a devastating national oil strike. "We threw 19,500 enemies of the country out of this company," Ramirez said with remarkable candor in the video, "and we're prepared to keep doing it to guarantee that this company is aligned and corresponds with the love that the people have expressed for our president...
...much are those fees? That depends on what kind of deal you can strike. When Ridester's overhead is factored in, a trip from Phoenix, Ariz., to Los Angeles arranged on the site would cost you $37, about $12 less than Greyhound and at least $100 less than Amtrak...
...charisma, they were. But in tandem, Lillee and Thomson took 148 wickets; McGrath and Gillespie have 376. As the highest wicket-taker in Test history, Warne's clippings would fill a small library. But the man condemned by fate to be his understudy, Stuart MacGill, has the better strike rate (wickets per balls bowled). It's better than Lillee's and McGrath's, too. But most of the time selectors can't squeeze MacGill into...