Young US Marine and Army captains have become viceroys in Iraq, with large sectors to run and near-autonomy to do it - just the training that corporate America loves
By Michael Kamber
During the war in Iraq, young US Marine and Army captains have become viceroys, officers with large sectors to run and near-autonomy to do it. In Army parlance, they are the "ground-owners." In practice, they are power brokers.

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The author's mission is to help girls be truer to themselves
By Claire Martin
Lauren Myracle is 38 going on 15, and fluent in the instant-message lingua franca of the tweens and teens who've made her the literary equivalent of a rock star.

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