War in Afghanistan: The top U.S. military officer in Afghanistan says that without more troops by the end of the year, the conflict will "likely result in failure." The Washington Post's Bob Woodward reports that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a 66-page report that "Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible."
Terror Investigation Moves Forward: Three suspected terrorists are to appear in U.S. district courts in Colorado and New York today on charges of lying to authorities in an ongoing terror investigation. The three suspects include Najibullah Zazi, an Afghanistan-born Colorado man who allegedly hand wrote bomb-making instructions, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Jobs on the Horizon? Dean Maki,chief U.S. economist at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York says the U.S. economy will add jobs by the end of this year and unemployment will peak just below 10 percent, Bloomberg reports. That said, Maki predicts that September will show another net loss in non-farm payrolls.
Coercion, Coercion: Pfizer's lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Shook, Hardy & Bacon have accused twice-sanctioned doctor-consultant David Egilman of attempting to coerce favorable testimony from one of the doctors who treated the alleged victim in the ongoing Neurontin litigation, The American Lawyer reports. The allegations come just one month after Pfizer was accused of using strong-arm tactics against a potential key witness. Pfizer is asking Boston federal district court judge Patti Saris for a restraining order and sanctions against Egilman and the lawyers for the alleged victim, Hartley Shearers.
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