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Zalmay Khalilzad says as he adjusts his bulletproof vest and settles into the back seat of his armored SUV. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq has just emerged from a meeting at the sprawling riverside home of Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, who heads the coalition of Shi'ite parties that controls Iraq's incoming parliament. It didn't go well. For more than an hour, Khalilzad tried to persuade al-Hakim to help revive the Iraqi political process, stalled in part because the Shi'ites refuse to bend to demands by secular, Kurdish and Sunni parties that Prime Minister Ibrahim...
...site meeting, at which they would come up with a framework for multisectarian governance. The plan is clearly based on the 2002 London conference of exiled leaders that Khalilzad presided over. "Sometimes meetings went on until 3 or 4 in the morning," he says as his SUV roars to his next appointment. "That may be what's required to get this job done at a faster pace." A major impediment is the current Prime Minister. Al-Jaafari is clinging to control despite widespread dissatisfaction with his tenure. But Khalilzad is not about to tell him to quit--that, he says...
...this game of academic chicken, neither side blinked. The Faculty was just lucky enough to be driving an SUV, while Summers was stuck with the aforementioned Prius. Now, as history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said in a Crimson article last Thursday, “It’s done, and the question is, ‘What...
...business plan for Renault. He wants to lift operating profit margin to 6%, increase annual Renault car sales from the current 2.5 million to 3.3 million, relaunch 13 existing brands, and roll out another 13 new models. Ghosn also plans to step up Renault's activity in luxury, suv and crossover categories, and exploit its effervescent markets outside of Western Europe, where two-thirds of the extra 800,000 cars are expected to be sold. The additional activity is expected to increase factory production rates from a current 60% of their total capacity to 75%. It's also requiring extensive...
...There were two transit-authority cars and a cop SUV outside with flashing lights, and several cops inside the ATM room,” Cone, who is also a Crimson editor, wrote in an e-mail. “When we were walking by they were mostly done, but they were picking up a horizontally striped sweater with a small blood stain on it and placing it into a brown Home Depot paper bag while someone else was taking pictures...