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...While the move is a risk for CBS, it's major milestone for MMA, whose growth has been one of the decade's most stunning sports business success stories. For the first time a live MMA fight will be broadcast on one of the big four networks, an extraordinary feat for a sport that, just 10 or so years ago, was roundly derided as "human cockfighting." At first, the caged bouts were fought in the shadows, since the sport was banned in almost every state (it is now sanctioned in 33). But MMA now draws strong ratings on the cable...
...tribes, many of whom were cooperating with al-Qaeda, the U.S. pays tribal leaders between $240 to $300 per month for each man the tribe employs to run roadway checkpoints and generally vouchsafe the population and U.S. forces against IEDs and gunfire. While different regions report varying degrees of success, here in the Yusufiah - one point in the area once known as the Triangle of Death - the decline in violence has been dramatic and precipitous. When the Army unit occupying this region approximately 10 miles south of Baghdad first arrived in October, they came under fire at least once...
...that high school classroom performance is a better predictor of success...
Your article on Obama's debt to the Clintons discredits Obama [May 26]. Whether you like him or not, he deserves the credit for his success, not the Clintons. Let's stop praising the Clintons at any cost and move on. The Clinton era is over. Stephen Nettles, ACWORTH...
...watching Blair, I've never thought that was a fair judgment, and having spent time with him in the past few weeks, I'm more persuaded than ever that it's wrong. Blair is not without faults. In the Middle East, where he has so far achieved little concrete success as the Quartet's envoy, it is uncomfortably common to hear the claim that he spreads himself too thin. He can, no question, come across as a bit cocksure in the rightness of his judgments. But he swims in deep waters. He is convinced, he told me, that...