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...though. They would also mitigate a threatening problem: As soldiers return from long tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prospect of a huge drop in enlisted personnel is looming large. In the interest of regaining the trust of the military rank-and-file, retaining those currently in uniform and enlisting enough new recruits to replace those fed up with service abroad, it is essential that much of this new money be spent on benefits and enticements for new and returning soldiers, such as advertising, better pay and better living conditions...
...voters, but his more remote style may be a liability. Not surprisingly, Al Sharpton has had one of the strongest presences in South Carolina, handing out Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people in Charleston and bringing congregations to their feet across the state. But as the black vote becomes less uniform, a boutique black candidate suffers. "A lot of blacks in South Carolina want the same thing as people in Iowa," says David Bositis, a scholar at the Washington Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. "They want somebody who can beat Bush." --Reported by Tim Padgett/Charleston, Perry Bacon...
Shopping for a President In the post-Iowa shake-up, voters must choose from among Kerry's steadiness, Edwards' sunniness, Clark's uniform and Dean's heat. A little of each is good, but the Dems get only...
...ever studied agrees that people who have advantages in life have an obligation to help those who don't have advantages." The emotional heart of the speech, though, is Clark's dismay over the Bush Administration's misuse of "the precious lives of our men and women in uniform" in Iraq--and that is where he will often run into problems. At times, his passion spills over into an almost Deanian imprudence. At a Texas fund raiser last week, Clark thundered, "We're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest Administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon...
...Year prompted objections from readers who felt the word soldier referred only to members of the U.S. Army. But as managing editor Jim Kelly explained in his From the Editor column, TIME used soldier "in its broadest sense, to stand for all of those in a U.S. uniform who go in harm's way." Other readers were upset because they mistakenly thought that female service personnel were not represented in our cover photo. They failed to notice that the soldier in the center of the picture is a woman, Army medic Billie Grimes...