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Some of the initial results worried Odierno: U.S. casualties in May and June?227 killed?were so high that even he thought he might have miscalculated. But over the summer, the landscape began to change. In Baghdad, GIs moved out of their relatively safe megabases on the outskirts and into smaller bases in the city's violent neighborhoods?to live, form networks and walk patrols. Following Saddam's model, Odierno split his troops between Baghdad and the belt towns on a 3-to-2 basis: 3 soldiers inside the capital for every 2 outside the city...
...days of post-Christmas reading period on the horizon—will feel plenty of pressure not to take a five-week winter break. This is especially the case given the resumé-mania that dominates many students’ lives during December and January, when firms launch their summer internship recruiting. There will be a substantial amount of pressure on students to “do something” with their winter session—too many will opt for the too-short 13-day winter break...
Harvard sold two Maine vacation houses last fall that were donated decades ago for faculty use, drawing criticism from professors who had used the houses as summer get-aways...
...story "New College Dean Pick To Come Soon," misstated the amount of time David R. Pilbeam served as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Pilbeam served from April 2007 to July 2007, not for "a year-and-a-half." Jeremy R. Knowles served as dean from the summer of 2006 through April 2007, when he resigned the deanship because of health reasons...
...Indeed, Romney outspent McCain in Florida on the order of eight to one. But he still lost, which is an encouraging sign for McCain. What's more, the money should now start rolling in to a McCain campaign that almost ended last summer over concerns about lackluster fund raising and overconfident spending. After months of forced modesty - in both hotel accommodations and attitude - McCain supporters are grinning again. "Rats are starting to leave multiple sinking ships," says one McCain fund raiser. "And all that money on the sidelines, who were just looking for an excuse to stay out. they...