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Trouble is, given the current conditions in Afghanistan, mission creep may be hard to avoid. U.S. special forces, allied with "friendly" Afghan tribes and militias, are roaming the country, looking for remnants of the Taliban and senior members of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's terror network. Defense Department officials acknowledge that, given the rivalries among Afghan factions and warlords, the U.S. could easily be perceived as favoring one side or another. That would make targets of American forces. To prevent that from happening, Washington has begun a debate over exactly how peace can be established and maintained in Afghanistan...
...long-running and very public merger debate are larger than life, and the whole of Silicon Valley is riveted by the story. Which, if you haven't been paying attention, goes like this: CEO Carly Fiorina wants a $25 billion marriage with Compaq--the largest tech merger ever--to avoid being squeezed between Dell (the personal-computer giant) and IBM (a leader in tech services and server computers). But certain key shareholders--including the children of HP's garage-dwelling founders and geek-world deities Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard--think the proposed merger is the equivalent of two stumbling...
...Fiorina's future, HP follows the mantras of the dotcom era: get big fast and diversify, keeping your fingers in as many pies as possible (in this case, the PC business, the server business, the consultancy business, and printing and imaging). Hewlett's vision is more classic and conservative: avoid spreading your resources too widely, and focus on what you do best--and what you're known for. In HP's case, that's printing and imaging. Hewlett would have HP ditch most of its low-margin PC business. Until recently, Wall Street seemed to be in lockstep with Hewlett...
...Take Me Out to the Ballgame," Vincente Minnelli on "An American in Paris" and "Brigadoon" - but, as co-director of two of his best films, he could take a measure of credit for their success, even as Astaire, who was "only" the star and choreographer, could avoid blame for his films? inadequacies...
...spokesman for Marine Gen. Michael Lehnert said the General plans to train his soldiers in the "finer points of the Muslim religion" to avoid another confrontation. Gen. Lenhert had also addressed what he believes is the underlying source of prisoners' agitation - what's going to happen to them and when - by telling the prisoners over loudspeakers that they "would be judged fairly, at some time in the future." Lehnert will now speak to the detainees weekly to inform them what, if anything, he knows of their status...