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...would like you to please hurry ... Come sooner than September." HAMID KARZAI, Afghan President, appealing to NATO to speed up its deployment of 3,500 additional troops to help tighten security ahead of Afghanistan's national election in September...
...There’s a learning curve for me,” Glickman said. “I’m going to have to spend the next few months...getting up to speed...
With the Egyptians in their sights as they fended off the British and French, the Crimson’s rowers again increased the speed of their sprint—this time to 41 strokes per minute—and powered their way to a fourth-place finish at 5:41.59, just 0.36 and 2.97 seconds behind the Egyptians and heat-winner USA1, respectively...
...move done at "warp speed," as one senior administration official put it? The official line here at the NATO summit is that the Iraqis are eager to get going. "It improves his hand," says a senior administration official, referring to Allawi. But there's more than that. Allawi has been saying that he wants martial law. Now that he has his own government, he has the political cover to do it in a way he couldn't before. Now it will be his martial law, if he proceeds, not the Americans'. Of course, it'll be kids from Watts...
...fair, the speed with which the new Iraqi government has taken the reins of power has been impressive. Just a few weeks ago the idea of a June 30th handover seemed laughable. Now there's an Iraqi government that's serious and determined, albeit one that's propped up by U.S. forces. Iraq has a leader in Allawi who seems determined to become a kind of Conrad Adenauer, the famed German chancellor, who will seek legitimacy from his people just as father of modern Germany did from the ashes of World...