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...currently doing so, 134 of them in Iraq. Fijian blue helmets in the Sinai and Lebanon - where 36 were killed during a 24-year deployment - "were well regarded," says defense analyst Jim Rolfe, of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, in Hawaii. "But those commitments have wound down or ended, so you have a large pool of trained people with nothing to do." Add 3,000 reservists, most of whom don't have regular jobs, and there's an even bigger pool of men eager to turn their training into cash...
When Summers suggested at a Jan. 14 conference that innate differences between the genders might help explain why fewer women succeed in math and science, he intended to provoke an intellectual debate among a small group of academics. But because of that world-renowned brand name, Summers wound up drawing international attention to Harvard's own shortage of female professors, bolstering a perception that the school isn't welcoming to women and minority academics, and enraging many faculty members, students and alumni of both genders. "It's not appropriate for the man who holds in his hands the future...
...view, he, like Washington, was spending his time in blissful retirement when he was called by the people once more to serve. Having lunch at an aide?s house recently, the ex-mayor recalled that every time he visited the Safeway grocery near his house in recent years, he wound up staying there two or three hours, with residents constantly coming to him to complain about the city?s leadership and beg for help...
...increments of summer sunlight or the nice construction of a simple lunch box. He also spots the looks that pass between people when they notice his forehead. A Vietnam War injury has left him with a deep indentation in his skull and a messy plug of scar tissue. The wound has all but deprived him of the power of speech. Anytime he tries to talk, the best he can do is bark out one or two syllables. "I gave up explaining years ago," he says, in the gently lyrical interior monologue that makes up Dave King...
...chiding you as you plop down your dough for some stupid new gadget. He's also the star of Tom Hart's scathing new collection, "Hutch Owen: Unmarketable!" (Top Shelf; 180 pages; $15) A devastating satire, "Unmarketable" feels like a scalding hot poker cauterizing the open wound of American corporate and consumer culture...