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This is American planners' worst fear. City combat blunts the U.S. military advantages of speed and knowledge. What the Pentagon calls "urban canyons" offers hideouts for foes and civilians as well as sniper nests and underground lairs from which combatants can strike. Buildings create vast "dead spaces" for an enemy to exploit out of the sight of those trying to kill Saddam. They hinder communication and hamper anything flying low, like helicopters, spy drones and warplanes assisting forces on the ground. In cities, mobility and maneuver--two tenets of U.S. ground-combat strategy--hit a dead...
...long-suffering Red Sox fan with a vast baseball-card collection (including every complete Topps set from 1952 to the present and a prized Fleer Ted Williams card), Lafley swims, bikes and works out several times a week. In recent years, he has spent downtime learning to play the guitar along with the younger of his two sons, who is in high school. Even as a member of a fraternity at Hamilton, Lafley was known as a consummate consensus builder. Around P&G, he is admired for being unusually approachable and a great listener. Unlike Jager, who alienated...
...attorneys, who might be said to specialize already in Relational Disorders--in creating them and making them worse--the prospect of such a fuzzy diagnosis must look like a row of cherries on a slot machine. By clouding the notion of personal responsibility even as the classification opens up vast new realms of mutual and collective liability, RD, as it will inevitably be referred to on daytime-TV talk shows, may generate even more in legal fees and damage awards than in insurance reimbursements...
...immediate communication that haven't already been realized by e-mail," he says. At the same time, he adds, IM provides an even greater temptation than e-mail does to "set aside real work" and engage in office gossip or chitchat with friends. Instant messaging, he says, offers "a vast potential for time waste...
...three of his 10 Ryder Cup matches. But Philip Walton's name is synonymous with victory. In 1995, the Irishman sank the putt that secured a European win on U.S. soil. He hasn't won a tourney since. Europe has some notable names gunning for glory this year. The vast experience of Montgomerie, who has played in five Cups, and German Bernhard Langer, a veteran of nine who has expressed interest in the 2004 captaincy, will steady the team. Also look for Sergio Garc?a and Jesper Parnevik. In 1999, the fiery young Spaniard and the quirkily cool Swede were unbeaten...