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...beginning to pay dividends, as the city's tribal and insurgent leaders gave their approval for young Sunnis to join the new police force. Recruitment mostly ran at about 40 a month, though in January, 1,000 showed up to join. But al-Qaeda responded by sending a chest-vest suicide bomber into the queue of applicants, killing about 40 Iraqis, wounding 80, and killing two Americans. When the recruits returned days later, al-Zarqawi followed up with a wave of seven assassinations of tribal sheiks. "That hurt us a lot," says Gronski...
...boaters “were wearing the proper equipment, they were wearing a life vest, and were not boating alone,” he said...
...departure since Nov. 1, 2001, when he told a Boston audience, "The half-life for a chief of staff is two years... There are very few people who had the experience I am having that survived very long, and that is appropriate. There is no security. I will not vest in the pension system at the White House...
...federal database of individual college student records also sparked debate at the meeting. The informational benefits of such a database would be outweighed by concerns about privacy, President of Bunker Hill Community College Mary L. Fifield said in her speech. But former MIT president and commission member Charles M. Vest replied that the commission supports the creation of the database and would ensure that the appropriate precautions were taken to protect privacy. Harvard Graduate School of Education student Jessica M. Bibeau, who spoke for three minutes during a public comment period, supported an alternative to the proposed testing...
Zalmay Khalilzad says as he adjusts his bulletproof vest and settles into the back seat of his armored SUV. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq has just emerged from a meeting at the sprawling riverside home of Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, who heads the coalition of Shi'ite parties that controls Iraq's incoming parliament. It didn't go well. For more than an hour, Khalilzad tried to persuade al-Hakim to help revive the Iraqi political process, stalled in part because the Shi'ites refuse to bend to demands by secular, Kurdish and Sunni parties that Prime Minister Ibrahim...