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...increase the number of advisers working with the Iraqis from 2,000 to 10,000. It's a potentially harrowing assignment--modeled on the adviser program in the Vietnam War--since the advisers operate without the force protection that is standard in U.S.-run operations. But the approach could yield big dividends if the Iraqis quickly prove they can become cohesive fighting blocs. "In the past it's been more about getting them out there on the streets," says Lieut. Colonel Mark Kneram of the 10th Mountain Division. "Now it's a more holistic approach, training and fighting together...
...some of the Great Lakes' continuing problems. With the expedition only a third over, researchers were already counting it a success. Richard Cooper, a marine biologist at the University of Connecticut and the scientific director of the project, declares that before the last dive, "we expect Mother Superior to yield up more of her secrets. We're finding things that will rewrite the book on ecology in the Great Lakes." --By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Marquette
...movie. One could almost be back in the 1960s, when films like Last Year at Marienbad demanded to be approached like cryptic crosswords. For upwards of two hours we stretch our intellects to find the key to Wetherby's emotional life. The film's characters do not easily yield to analysis, though they are surely worth the bother. Their stiff upper lips are pursed in ruminative silence. And when they speak, they have something to say; Wetherby is a devilishly clever talk show. Moreover, they inhabit a film that commutes briskly through three time zones in one Yorkshire village...
...week's diplomatic roundelay was a heartening shift in the pattern of Middle East maneuvering, but will the renewed to-ing and fro-ing about peace yield concrete results? Not many diplomats were willing to venture a prediction. U.S. officials went only so far as to say that the Israeli nod toward an international forum for the peace process is "a substantive development." Said a U.S. official: "It means we can begin to talk seriously." --By George Russell. Reported by John Borrell/Cairo and Roland Flamini with Peres
...Paribas and Crédit Agricole all say they will not follow suit until customers express interest of their own. It may be a long wait. Though the French wrote 4 billion checks on 57 million current accounts last year, the national average balance of €1,500 would yield a mere €7.50 interest annually under Caisse d'Epargne's scheme - before tax and service charges. Not much of a revolution after all. - By Bruce Crumley...