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...analogy is both apt and troubling. Like Germany at the end of World War II, Iraq is an urbanized but ravaged society living in the shadow of a vile dictatorship. As in Germany, the systems for providing essential services like water and power have been wrecked. As in Germany, basic conditions of order and security are lacking in much of Iraq; there are too many weapons in the hands of too many people prepared to use them to settle old scores or redress new grievances. For American troops, Iraq is still a dangerous place. In the three weeks...
...thank Southwest Airlines for the changes--or curse it, if you are a competitor. Southwest, based in Dallas, created the basic-fare, point-to-point model the new discount carriers are adapting and profiting from. Five airlines today--AirTran, ATA, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines--aspire to be the next Southwest, and at least two major carriers, Delta Air Lines and United, have launched or announced plans for low-fare, me-too subsidiaries (a second try for both...
...creating a very profitable company. Data-storage devices, he knew, were getting larger every year. While the maximum size of a disc drive in 1984 was 30 MB, today a 120-GB hard drive--that's 400 times as much storage--sells for less than $120. But the basic technology has changed little, so the amount of lost data swells each year. That's why Gaidano and partner Jay Hagan created DriveSavers, which has become one of the most respected small private companies you've never heard of--with $10 million annual revenue and 40 well-compensated employees...
...hoped to topple the tyrant, restore basic services and then quickly transfer power to a government led by Iraqi exiles cultivated in Western capitals. Instead, it has quickly become clear that Washington will be forced to shoulder the bulk of the political, economic and, particularly, military burden of a long-term occupation. The political and military uncertainty on the ground has indefinitely postponed the transfer of power to an Iraqi interim government, much to the chagrin of the previously exiled groups that had been working with Washington. And whereas the Pentagon had hoped to begin withdrawing many of the approximately...
...plan to elect a 35-member consultative body to advise him on political decisions, and have threatened to hold their national assembly in defiance of his edicts. But managing the competing claims of rival Iraqi groups amid mounting tension, fighting the Baathist holdouts while working to restore security and basic services are now part of the administration's daily agenda in Iraq...