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...rapidly degenerating into a broken force." Then Army officials, speaking privately, conceded that a long-standing policy limiting deployments of National Guard and Army Reserve forces is likely to be scrapped. That's going to make the already difficult job of recruiting--and retaining--such part-time soldiers even tougher. Finally, they added, the continuing instability in Iraq will probably force the Army to make permanent what was supposed to be a temporary addition of 30,000 troops to the active-duty force...
...money for college, and so it was easier to recruit," says Curtis Mills, 31, an Army reservist who served in Iraq as a military-police sergeant for six months in 2003. "But with what you see in the papers and everybody being deployed, it's got to be tougher." Mills, of Shapleigh, Maine, spent 11 months recovering from wounds he suffered outside Ramadi when a roadside bomb cut up his arm, leg and back in September 2003. Unable to return to his job as a postal carrier, he gets by on a $2,000 monthly disability check from the Department...
...profile cases, such as the shareholder suit against Walt Disney Co. directors over the $140 million paid to former president Michael Ovitz. Charles Elson, director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, says the WorldCom deal could have a "chilling effect" by making it tougher to recruit directors. Elson himself is on three boards and says the settlement "creates some introspection" as to whether he should continue. Still, many applaud. "The only chill will be on directors who think it's a social club," says Alan Hevesi, New York State comptroller and a leader...
...training ahead so the result on Saturday came at a great time,” co-captain Alasdair McLean-Foreman said. “We’re really motivated from our performance, and everyone’s ready to step up the intensity when we come up against tougher competitors in the next few weeks...
...Crimson expects this victory against the Huskies to boost its confidence when it faces much tougher competition against the two Ivy League schools in a meet that rounds off its regular season schedule...