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ATLANTA, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mirant (Pink Sheets: MIRKQ - News) today announced that Mirant's Board of Directors has appointed M. Michele Burns, 46, chief restructuring officer. Burns will continue to report to Chief Executive Officer, Marce Fuller and will maintain her role as executive vice president and chief financial officer. In her additional role, Burns will serve as the company's primary representative in the bankruptcy process. She and her team will continue to develop the company's plan of reorganization and capital structure, and prepare the company to emerge from Chapter 11. "Michele has the full confidence of our Board...

<p>You hear a lot these days that U.S. armed forces are "overstretched" for their current commitments. Some, though not all, of this comes from those who mistakenly - or malignantly - claim to see a developing "quagmire" in Iraq.</p> <p>There is no quagmire.</p>

As President Bush neither apologized for the coalition’s actions nor gloated about the fact they did the right thing without the backing of the politically crippled United Nations, it became evident the UN is facing a crisis of validity, definition and identity. Utilizing a system that caters more to a world operating in the World War II Era rather than the 21st Century and encumbered by the growing manipulation of individual country’s political agendas, the UN General Assembly sat politely as the president reminded them of their obligation to their mission statement. The alphabet media’s take on the reaction to...

1. The doctrine WASHINGTON - At the conclusion of its second week, the war to liberate Iraq wasn't looking good. Not even in Washington. The assumption of a swift collapse of the Saddam Hussein regime had itself collapsed. The presupposition that the Iraqi dictatorship would crumble as soon as mighty America entered the country proved unfounded. The Shi'ites didn't rise up, the Sunnis fought fiercely. Iraqi guerrilla warfare found the American generals unprepared and endangered their overextended supply lines. Nevertheless, 70 percent of the American people continued to support the war; 60 percent thought victory was certain; 74 percent expressed...