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...here [in September]?" Rumsfeld demands to know. Odierno rattles off an answer, but the flak intensifies. "How many people are you capturing or killing in a week?" Rumsfeld asks. Two hundred captured, up to 100 killed, Odierno responds. "Of those captured, how many do you throw back?" Ten percent. "And the rest we're locking up?" We've locked up probably over 4,000, sir. "Are you getting any decent intelligence?" Sometimes, but a commander always wants more. "How much of the information you get is someone getting even with their next-door neighbors?" About 10%. "How many Americans...
...reached a sweet spot, the drinks are still cool and the bodies are hot. A critical mass of diverse, yet somehow connected, revelers fills the room with its moves and chatter. It’s a great party. Unfortunately, it’s also 12:50 am, and in ten minutes, like clockwork, a tutor will surely come to turn on the light and usher everyone—save for the room’s permanent residents—into the cold night, left to roam in search of late-night food, an unregistered gathering or the dingy basement...
...Budget and Policy Priorities—three budget watch-groups ranging across the political spectrum—jointly held a press conference warning Americans to take action against the upcoming fiscal crisis. The groups cautioned, “the budget will remain mired in deficit throughout the next ten years…Thereafter, as Boomers retire and cash in their entitlement claims, the deficit will explode to 6 percent of GDP by 2020, 12 percent by 2030, and an economy-shattering 21 percent by 2040.” According to the projections, the total national debt will equal total gross...
Even the idea of playing one of the top ten teams in the country—an undefeated team, no less—doesn’t seem overwhelming to this resilient bunch...
...Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of Iraq, announced yesterday morning that the 4th Infantry Division arrested the country’s former president at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday in an underground “spider” hole near the Tigris River, in the town of Adwar, ten miles from Saddam’s hometown of Tikrit...