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...North's nuclear and missile tests. And China has seen that the U.S. was willing to go "more than the extra mile," says Einhorn, to resolve the Macau banking dispute. "The Chinese will now be more inclined," he predicts, "to come down hard on the North Koreans for further foot-dragging...
Beginning with some haunting piano chords, it blossomed into rhythmically propulsive, full-out foot-thumping music when saxophonists Jake G. Cohen ’09 (who is also The Crimson’s Music Editor), Noah L. Nathan ‘09, and trumpeter Scott M. McKinney ‘09 joined...
...course, soldiers and their families weren't the only ones surprised by the Pentagon announcement. Just hours before the news leaked out, President Bush complained about Democratic Congressional foot-dragging that has held up approval of a $120-billion-plus supplemental war bill. "The bottom line is this: Congress's failure to fund our troops will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines," Bush told an American Legion audience in suburban Virginia. The next day, his Pentagon did it all by itself, without any help from anyone...
Golf and Nike were not obviously made for each other. Indeed, everything about the golf business was contrary to Nike's corporate DNA. Its core business was footwear and apparel, but golf was driven by equipment. Nike distributed to large national accounts such as J.C. Penney and Foot Locker, while golf products were sold in pro shops and specialty retailers that did nowhere near the volume of business that Nike was used to handling. "The only way to run golf successfully was to run it totally separate from the rest of the company," Nike's Wood says...
...high plains of Arbil are almost as scorching. Otherwise, Kurdistan was a refuge. In Baghdad, journalists had begun hiring security entourages and erecting guarded compounds. To the north in Arbil, as a visiting American, I was practically given the keys to the city. I did my reporting by foot or hailed taxis from the street, spent my evenings in beer gardens or pizza parlors, and slept on the roof of the house, with the sound of crickets rather than Kalashnikovs in the cooling night...