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...assessing the military's Iraq strategy, warns that the Army cannot maintain its current pace of operations in Iraq without leaving permanent damage. Plans to trim U.S. troops there this year-now at 138,000, with hopes of reducing that to 100,000 by year's end-is a tacit acknowledgment that the Army is stretched too thin, he maintains in a section he entitles "The Thin Green Line." The service's failure to achieve its recruiting goal in 2005-the first time it has missed it since 1999-and hefty bonuses for soldiers to reenlist are further evidence...
...impact on what is supposed to be Evangelicalism's core mission worries many believers, and raises concerns that should, some say, be discussed long past Christmas Sunday. "This is a terrible witness and a tacit admission that church is not important to us," says Witherington. "To Joe Secular, we might as well have put a white flag up on the church's front lawn...
...fall from the spotlight, in tabloid-worthy detail. While the story is interesting enough, and the nostalgic beat is appropriately soulful, no one ever asked the emcee for “Behind the Music: Eccentric Alt-Rap Songwriter Edition.” We asked for hip-hop.He delivers on this tacit demand with such future classics as “Rock On.” “I show pain in the manner/of Coltrane’s ‘Alabama’/Make ’em blaze they hammer/Real girls get down on the flo’ like...
...Minority women feel uncomfortable bringing up their community service to employers, sensing tacit disapproval and persisting stereotypes. But Battles says Pitney Bowes not only knows about her sorority participation but lauds it. The company even sponsored a college scholarship fund of a local Delta chapter. "We are raising our profile in the diverse community," says Battles...
...were buying the t-shirts in droves. That the shrill opinion of 23 teenage girls could override the demand of young women nationwide either speaks to Abercrombie’s own internal qualms, strange for a company that printed the shirts in the first place, or to its tacit admission that the shirts are meant more as publicity tools than serious products. Still, the fundamental fact is that these were not hate-inducing or violence-provoking t-shirts. All they were ever meant to do, as Abercrombie representatives stressed, was to provide some impudent humor to a nation consumed...