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...insurgency nor the political acumen to sell his ideas back home. Some correspondents who covered Iraq in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein also came away with that opinion; in his best-selling 2006 book, Fiasco, Washington Post correspondent Thomas E. Ricks suggested that Odierno's tough tactics in the Sunni Triangle had helped fuel the insurgency. Odierno's 4th Infantry Division, while hunting down Saddam and fighting off the remnants of his irregular fedayeen forces, flattened houses said to have been used by fighters and launched artillery volleys at insurgents hiding amid the civilian population...
These days, Odierno and his staff are brainstorming over what the next phase of U.S. military presence in Iraq will look like. A tough battle is still being fought in Mosul and Diyala province against al-Qaeda in Iraq. Iran continues to wage a hot and cold war for influence over the future of Iraq. Militant groups are trying to regain footholds around Baghdad. And Odierno's political skills have been put to the test in negotiations over a status-of-forces agreement with the Iraqi government, which the Iraqi Cabinet endorsed on Nov. 16. Under the terms...
...everyone equated the financial downturn with a need for pecuniary curtailment. In a speech that received rousing applause from his colleagues, statistics professor Xiao-Li Meng said that the tough times gave Harvard a chance to snare top professors from less financially secure institutions...
Shortly afterward, we ran into Yale’s president. He was pleading for donations with a well-worn Au Bon Pain cup and a cardboard sign. Looks like the market has been tough on Yale’s pitiful endowment! What can you expect in this economy though, right...
...seven or eight clients, driving to different neighborhoods to spend about 30 minutes at each home. It's hard work, and in the eight years that Nakamura has worked for the company, 30 employees have left. "People come with a dream but they quit," he says. "It's physically tough and doesn't pay. I have no way of stopping them." The raise in Nakamura's own salary has been less than .5% since he started. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...