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...battalion superiors, the Canadians who ran Task Force Kandahar and their NATO superiors at Regional Command-South, the NATO regional command for southern Afghanistan. He also needed the approval of the local, district and regional Afghan government authorities. That part wasn't too bad. Ellis was a gung-ho briefer. On Saturday, April 3, I watched him describe the school operation to a group of Canadian generals. "That was one of the most impressive op rants I've seen in a long time," Lieut. General Andrew Leslie, the Canadian chief of land staff, said when Ellis finished - and later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Tale of Soldiers and a School | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...During the Persian Gulf War, served as an Army briefer and commanded the 75th Ranger Regiment in Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stan McChrystal: The New U.S. Commander in Afghanistan | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...indeed this recession mirrors in some respects more the Great Depression than the other intervening much briefer recessions, then obviously we have reason for greater concern," says Dr. Alan L. Berman, executive director of the American Association of Suicidology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicides: Watching for a Recession Spike | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...complex field of international intellectual-property law, which is currently grabbing public, not to mention legal, attention as many of the icons of the 20th century - from cartoon characters to rock 'n' roll artists - lose copyright protection in Europe. The issue generating the most publicity is Europe's briefer copyright period - record labels and publishing houses argue that it degrades copyright protection in the U.S. by allowing cheap and illegal European CDs and Internet downloads into the American market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pow! Popeye Loses Copyright Battle in Europe | 1/16/2009 | See Source »

...very least, uniform parity would mean that the athletes' sun-block bills would be more equitable. And given that one of the places where beach volleyball first gained popularity in the 1920s was a French nudist colony (Franconville, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in case you're wondering) a briefer male costume would also have historical resonance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life's a Beach at the Volleyball | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

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