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Topic: Iraq

  
LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

" Nothing Is Easy in Iraq. But You Can't Not Do It."

BY Keith H. Hammonds
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:44 AM

A British brigadier on the rebuilding of Iraq's police force.READ»

INTERNET + WEB   |  1 comment

Yet Another Spam Scam

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 11, 2006 at 1:13 PM

I have received email from exiled African princes, Nigerian businessmen, and heirs to diamond mines. And I know I'm not the only who has received such spam in my inbox. I have also been contacted by soldiers in the Army over in Iraq ...READ»

New York Times
FAKE NEW YORK TIMES   |  2 comments

Fake New York Times Prank: Unfunny Farce or Innovative Inspirational Tool?

BY Sean Ludwig
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Nov 13, 2008 at 12:36 PM

On Wednesday, liberal pranksters distributed 1.2 million copies of a fake New York Times dated July 4, 2009, in which the Iraq war ends and universal health care is happening. Was it effective or just an undercooked attempt at political humor?READ»

ETHONOMICS   |  6 comments

Going Global: America's Christians After George W. Bush


Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jul 11, 2007 at 9:00 AM

That America continues to look inward is no secret. While Americans may be among the most info-saturated people in the world, their knowledge of the world around them continues to dwindle. Few Americans have traveled the globe, ...READ»

Army
ANTI-SNIPER SYSTEM   |  Comment

The Army's New Anti-Sniper Technology

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Feb 9, 2009 at 9:21 AM

Slowly but surely, the U.S. Army is adjusting to the reality of hard-fought, guerrilla wars like the ones we're fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and redirecting its R&D towards a new breed of battlefield technology. This year, ...READ»

POLITICS + GOVERNMENT   |  5 comments

The Red-State Menace


Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Nov 5, 2004 at 9:18 AM

I have to take issue with yesterday's entry from my friend and colleague Bill Breen. If you live in Boston or New York or Washington, you've heard any number of variations over the last three days (amid the din of collective wailing ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  16 comments

Security: Power To The People

BY John Robb
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:07 AM

The myth of American omnipotence fell in the Iraqi desert, laid low by an agile new enemy. We have a chance now to rethink the systems that protected us in the past. It's one we cannot miss.READ»

GLOBALIZATION   |  Comment

Culture

BY Anne Kreamer and Kurt Andersen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:37 AM

Anne Having read each new newspaper story about the impending war with Iraq, I'm familiar with (and not entirely unsympathetic to) the Bush administration's rationale: We need to prevent Saddam from deploying biological and nuclear ...READ»

CHANGE AGENTS   |  1 comment

Car Talk

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 27, 2003 at 6:05 PM

In another excellent column about Iraq, the New York Times' Thomas Friedman quotes Harvard prez Larry Summers: "In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car." Although neatniks might quibble with the veracity of ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  1 comment

Innovation Wednesday: Unique Social Networking Site helps Iraq War Veterans Find Work

BY Ellen McGirt
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 3:10 PM

Some returning Iraq war veterans are facing another battle at home: The fight to find a job. In fact, unemployment among young veterans is significantly higher than non-veterans in the same age group, mostly 22-24, and dramatically ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Digging Out

BY David Axe
Relevancy Score: 98
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:16 AM

The idea of putting people to work was largely neglected after the invasion of Iraq. Now, as debate mounts over troop withdrawals, one strategy might help fill the void.READ»

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT   |  Comment

The Corporate Shrink

BY Dr. Kerry J. Sulkowicz
Relevancy Score: 96
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:44 AM

The perils of talking politics or religion in the office.READ»

CHANGE AGENTS   |  3 comments

Peace of the Action

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 92
Wed Sep 7, 2005 at 1:33 PM

In these days of Katrina and Iraq, what's the purpose of business? Several readers have expressed concern that their work matters less in the face of disaster -- and it's challenging to remain focused on workaday business activities ...READ»

EMPLOYEE TERMINATION   |  Comment

The Corporate Shrink

BY Dr. Kerry J. Sulkowicz
Relevancy Score: 91
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:50 AM

How to cope with the guilt of firing a coworker.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  3 comments

In Search of Courage

BY John McCain
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:45 AM

Finding the courage within you.READ»

INNOVATION   |  2 comments

Where Has All the Ambition Gone?

BY James Champy
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:43 AM

Where has all the ambition gone? There's a growling bear in the marketplace of ideas.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

The People Who Win The Wars

BY Michael Abrashoff
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:41 AM

No matter how brilliantly the big brass plans wars, the outcome depends on the people who fight them.READ»

Fallujah
SIX DAYS IN FALLUJAH   |  1 comment

Can a Game Be Journalism? Play 'Six Days In Fallujah' to Find Out

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 89
Tue Apr 7, 2009 at 9:28 AM

Six Days in Fallujah isn't the title of a war correspondent's missives from the frontlines. It's not even a book about the Iraq war. It's a video game due out next year from Konami--albeit one where the ricocheting bullets, ...READ»

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IRAQ   |  Comment

Mining Data to Predict Attacks in Iraq

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 89
Mon May 4, 2009 at 3:45 PM

Physicist Sean Gourley thinks he may be able to model and predict violence in Iraq. And it's not just Iraq; Gourley, who works for the San Fransisco-based startup YouNoodle, has used his military side project to map the ...READ»

BUSINESS TRAVEL   |  Comment

" Now we live!"

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 88
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:45 AM

Ride along with a consultant who's sniffing out business opportunities in Iraq.READ»

BMW   |  Comment

Trends in Government Consulting -- Turbulence Ahead

BY Christopher Parente
Relevancy Score: 85
Mon Apr 21, 2008 at 1:24 PM

Friday morning I attended an interesting event put on by the Association for Corporate Growth, National Chapter. ACG National is a who’s who of the DC business community and puts on quality events. I’ve been a member for two ...READ»

LEISURE   |  1 comment

Wishful Thinking

BY Magnus Hoij and Fiona Haley
Relevancy Score: 84
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:49 AM

Getting and giving: fun tech toys for your holiday list, plus three worthy causes.READ»

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APPLE   |  Comment

iPod Goes to Boot Camp to Help You Snipe Better

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 80
Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 6:11 AM

This is a wonderful (or perhaps just sickly bizarre) mix of pleasure and danger: It's an iPod Touch mounted to a sniper rifle. And it's not just there to deliver some banging battlefield tunes to the ear of the guy behind the trigger, ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  31 comments

Continental Courage

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 79
Thu Nov 4, 2004 at 4:18 PM

Where do you find courage in this country? Not in the southern or western U.S., which overwhelming succumbed to the Bush campaign's fear mongering and Dick Cheney's demented suggestion that a vote for John Kerry is a vote for the ...READ»

RE:CON WTF 2004   |  3 comments

The End of the Oil Age

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 77
Sat Apr 3, 2004 at 5:26 PM

Kenneth Deffeyes is professor emeritus of geosciences at Princeton University. The author of Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage offered his insights on the upcoming and ongoing oil crisis and some possible ways to ...READ»

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