Drained of talent like Charles Frenette, a highly regarded head of European operations who quit in August, and Jack L. Stahl, a well-liked company veteran who served as president and second-in-command and was stripped of his authority last March, Coke is run by has-beens and relatively recent hires.

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The 61-year-old industrial engineer was trying to cage the Cat even before he took command last year.

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On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years.

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There is a growing consensus among Republicans, not to mention Democrats, that another failure like last summer's Operation Forward Together will tear the fabric of trust between the Bush and al-Maliki command centers.

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