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...campaign promise to improve soldiers’ quality of life. But despite repeated defense budget increases, the Bush administration has shown little regard for the average soldier. Last November, the Army Times ran a story detailing proposed cuts to key military benefits, including family health care and on-base schools. These cuts would have sacrificed the living conditions of American troops while keeping funding constant for fighter and unmanned spy plane development and missile defense. Those plans were scrapped after a “shock-and-awe” display of military criticism, but Congress should still be wary...
...building will house the Weissman Preservation Center (WPC), which maintains and repairs the library’s collection of manuscripts and rare books. It will also hold the Office of Information Services (OIS), which is the main control base for the online HOLLIS catalogue, he said...
...Khoei died in 1992, Sistani succeeded him as the most prominent member of the hawza, the network of seminaries and mosques that dominates life in the city and generates huge sums in alms and tithes. Two years later, Saddam placed Sistani under house arrest. In response, Sistani established a base in Qum, in western Iran, and forged relationships with the ruling clergy in Tehran. But Sistani, like many other Shi'ite luminaries, disagrees with the Iranian practice of velayat-e faqih, or rule of the clergy. Aides say he has always discouraged clerics from holding political positions...
...model for the liberated political wife, though, is someone who plays a real strategic role in her husband's campaign, like Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Edwards (lawyer wife of Democratic candidate John Edwards). Or someone with an independent base of celebrity, like Teresa Heinz Kerry or Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger. We have no model for Steinberg, about whom we know almost nothing except that she is Jewish and a doctor. While her husband has been staging one of the most remarkable insurgent presidential campaigns in history, she has continued to cure the sick back in Vermont, as if there were nothing...
Acquisitions will permit L'Oreal to continue diversifying its revenue base and product range. In December L'Oreal bought Mininurse, a Chinese mass skin-care brand with a 5% market share. It bought a majority stake last year of Shu Uemura, a Japanese concern in which it owned a 35% stake. In the past decade, Western Europe's share of L'Oreal's overall sales has fallen about 12%, while the share of regions like Asia has risen more than 20%. L'Oreal also has its eye on India and Mexico. "It's a superb sales model," says Andy Smith...