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...Where U.S. troops are involved in Asia, the results have been ambiguous, at times shrouded in the confusion of a war with no clear objective or measure of victory. In Afghanistan, after a string of early victories, U.S. forces are still searching for traces of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban's Mullah Omar. To make matters worse, a whole lot of Afghans are howling for American scalps because of tragic collateral damage: innocent villagers killed in American raids...
...down in the trenches and help you work out a story." Her own ascent to power, however, hasn't been easy. Though she was named chairman in 1999, she seemed to lack the golden gut of the most successful studio chiefs. She released a string of uninspired teen movies and such duds as the 2000 Sandra Bullock-goes-to-rehab drama 28 Days. Guessing when she would be fired by her Sony bosses became a favorite Hollywood pastime...
Assistant Dean of Freshmen Philip A. Bean, who spent the last two years dealing with everything from late study cards to a string of thefts in Greenough Hall, will leave Prescott Street next week to become associate dean of Haverford College...
...politics was completely wrong," said Michael Rogowski, president of the Federal Association of German Industry. At least Sommer has the consolation that he is not alone among embattled European CEOs. Only three weeks ago, Jean-Marie Messier was removed as chief executive of French media giant Vivendi, where a string of acquisitions had left the company with a pile of debt and a slumping share price. France Télécom chairman Michel Bon is also under pressure because of high debts. In the past, Europe's clubby business atmosphere meant a consensus approach to decision making and often...
...Stern's allegation that he had received €28,000 in luxury clothes. Scharping said he had properly reported the payments and paid tax on them. "Large parts of the claims against me are false and deliberately defamatory," he said. The payments controversy was only the latest in a string of accusations against Scharping, a former leader of the Social Democratic party (SPD) who ran unsuccessfully against Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1994. Last summer, Scharping came under severe criticism when photographs were published showing him and his girlfriend cavorting in Majorca at a time when German troops were beginning...