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...obvious domestic political reasons, the Bush Administration going into the war had downplayed the scale and duration of a post-war occupation mission. When then-Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki told legislators that such a mission would require several hundred thousand U.S. troops, his assessment had been immediately dismissed by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as "wildly off the mark." Wolfowitz explained that "I am reasonably certain that (the Iraqi people) will greet us as liberators, and that will help us to keep requirements down." Six weeks ago, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld was still suggesting the U.S. force...
...math whiz with almost total recall, Sosenko is legendary around the office for remembering practically every one of the several thousand patients he has seen--and details of their conditions--even if it's been 15 years between visits. He personally coordinates most of his patients' care, calling other specialists for tests and appointments. "Any wheezing? How about panting?" Sosenko asks Richard Escherick, 61, during an office visit. In his blunt but friendly style, Sosenko quizzes the man about his nighttime cough. "Is it like this?" he asks, making a hacking sound. "Or like this?"--and he rattles his throat...
...expanded by Bill Clinton. Fraud no doubt exists, and fraud is bad. But the money to be gained here is minuscule compared with, say, the estimated $20 billion lost each year from American companies that set up offshore headquarters to avoid taxation. (The Administration says it is hiring a thousand more agents to go after upper-income cheats.) Finally, the centerpiece of Bush's social policy--his bill supporting faith-based programs--collapsed, according to the now departed DiIulio, because the White House was more interested in a bill that pleased the Evangelical right than a compromise that might have...
...ground guarantee that an attack on South Korea would automatically bring U.S. intervention?may soon be gone. Last week, Seoul and Washington announced U.S. troops will pull back at least 50 km to bases south of Seoul over the next few years. It makes military sense?a few thousand grunts were never going to block an invasion by the 1.1 million-strong North Korean military. And in an era of precision-guided munitions, officials insist the pullback won't undermine the U.S.-South Korean defense alliance?or send the wrong signal to Pyongyang. Says Lieut. Colonel Steven Boylan, a spokesman...
After interviewing over a thousand Harvard students, Light wrote in his 2001 book Making the Most of College that when asked to identify a “specific, critical incident...that changed them profoundly, four-fifths of [students] chose a situation or event outside of the classroom...