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(CNN) -- It was supposed to have been over in a few days. World powers would go in with fighter jets and the world's most sophisticated precision-guided weapons to render Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi powerless.

But that's not the way things happened.

As NATO's airstrikes crossed the 100-day mark, analysts blamed a host of faulty assumptions, including success based solely on surgical airstrikes, for a protracted war that some fear could drag on for more months.

"It's absolutely wrong to think that an air campaign can win this," said Andrew McGregor of the Jamestown Foundation and director of Aberfoyle… Read More

Editor's note: Amitai Etzioni is a sociologist and professor of international relations at George Washington University and the author of several books, including "Security First" and "New Common Ground." He was a senior adviser to the Carter administration and has taught at Columbia and Harvard universities and the University of California, Berkeley.

(CNN) -- Yale University announced this month that it would close an institute dedicated to the study of anti-Semitism, the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary… Read More

Memac Ogilvy and Mather announced the promotion of Eymard Saldanha to the position of Regional Head of Advertising in the Middle East and North Africa. Eymard will continue to head up the BAT Eastern Europe Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) account and part of the Global Leadership Team at Ogilvy on BAT.

BAT is the single largest client within Ogilvy Africa and Middle East.

Eymard joined Memac Ogilvy in Dubai in early 1997 as Associate Account Director and was regularly promoted throughout the years. During his career at Memac Ogilvy, Eymard has managed multiple blue-chip accounts, including British American Tobacco (Pall… Read More

Memac Ogilvy and Mather announced the promotion of Eymard Saldanha to the position of Regional Head of Advertising in the Middle East and North Africa. Eymard will continue to head up the BAT Eastern Europe Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) account and part of the Global Leadership Team at Ogilvy on BAT.

BAT is the single largest client within Ogilvy Africa and Middle East.

Eymard joined Memac Ogilvy in Dubai in early 1997 as Associate Account Director and was regularly promoted throughout the years. During his career at Memac Ogilvy, Eymard has managed multiple blue-chip accounts, including British American Tobacco (Pall… Read More

(CNN) -- American student Amanda Knox's bid to overturn her conviction for the murder of her British roommate in Italy may have been given a boost by fresh DNA analysis.

Forensic specialists told a court in Perugia, Italy, that evidence linking her to the alleged murder weapon was unsound.

Meredith Kercher was found stabbed to death in 2007 at the house she shared with Knox in Perugia, the central Italian town where both were students. Kercher was found semi-naked and her throat had been slashed.

The court-appointed forensic experts reviewed police findings that identified DNA from both Knox and Kercher on a knife… Read More