This was the essential difficulty of the task at hand: The higher-ups in the U.S. Army needed to know about the enemy in this unexplored province, so in order to learn as much as they could, they were going to stick a small group of troops in its midst.

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We know very little about them except a few biographical details which all of a sudden seem ideally suited to the papacy. (This is totally opposite the case of U.S. Presidents, whom we know far too much about thanks to exhaustive, psyche-exposing multiyear campaigns).

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John Kerry took a swipe at President Bush over the growing controversy of some Iraqi prisoners being abused by their U.S. captors, declaring Thursday that, if elected commander-in-chief, he would "not be the last to know" about the actions of U.S. forces.

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Two old hats who know a few tricks about stocks--Warren Buffett and John Bogle--say the U.S. equity markets are headed for a long period of underperformance.

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And, lest you think this is all about sensitive leaders coddling overly-sensitive employees, you might be interested to know that the case study involves the U.S. Army and how Judy consults with them to better train their officers.

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