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JIM LEHRER: U.S. Marines and Taliban militants engaged in fierce fighting today in southern Afghanistan. The battle over a key town continued as the country's presidential campaign entered its final week.
Jeffrey Brown has our lead story report.
JEFFREY BROWN: The focus of the fight for a second day was a major Taliban stronghold in Helmand province. The offensive began Wednesday at dawn after 400 U.S. Marines and a hundred Afghan troops stormed the town of Dahaneh in the face of heavy resistance.
Today, the coalition force resumed its bid to drive out insurgents who've kept the area in their grip.
ABDUL RAZAK, Afghan villager (through translator): There is no peace and security in this country, and we are concerned. Now, hopefully, security and prosperity will come to this village. We all look forward to that.
JEFFREY BROWN: The coalition force also operated under new restrictions on air strikes to avoid civilian casualties. This was the latest in a series of recent operations since U.S. forces began a major buildup in Afghanistan. Casualties have also been rising, with another American and three British soldiers killed today.
As more U.S. troops pour in, the Wall Street Journal reported this week that their top commander, Army General Stanley McChrystal, was warning that the Taliban have gained the upper hand. The general's aides disputed that account, and today in Washington Defense Secretary Robert Gates said it's a mixed picture.
ROBERT GATES, secretary of defense: In some parts of Afghanistan, the Taliban have clearly established a presence. The operations underway now and those being considered for the coming months are designed to roll back the Taliban and establish a lasting security and government presence, a presence that can give the Afghan people confidence that they will be protected from intimidation and retribution.
JEFFREY BROWN: Gates said an upcoming assessment from McChrystal will not contain specific recommendations for additional troops. For now, U.S. operations are aimed at securing as much of Afghanistan as possible ahead of the presidential vote a week from today.
At today's Pentagon briefing, the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine General James Cartwright, said there's been some success.
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GEN. JAMES CARTWRIGHT, vice chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: I think the commanders believe that they are making progress. What's the end state? If the election is the timeline that we're looking at, the metric is, are more people able to come out and avail themselves of a democratic process of voting? Yes, that looks like it's going to be the case, all the indications are. Are we stable there? Have we obtained all of the objectives we intend to obtain in Helmand? Not yet. We've got a lot of work to do there.
JEFFREY BROWN: And in Kabul today, Afghan President Hamid Karzai declared a cease-fire for Election Day.
Karzai was first elected in 2004, and he's the leading candidate in a field of three dozen contenders. At a rally today, he predicted victory, and he promised to reach out to his top two challengers, including former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.
HAMID KARZAI, president, Afghanistan: If I win the election -- which, with God's help, I will -- I will invite all the candidates, I will invite Dr. Abdullah, I will invite Ashraf Ghani, give them food and tea and give them jobs, as I did the last time.
JEFFREY BROWN: As Karzai addressed supporters in Kabul, his rival, Abdullah drew tens of thousands in the northern city of Mazari Sharif. If no single candidate wins an outright majority next week, the top two vote-getters will go into a runoff.
Earlier today, I talked about the security situation and the upcoming election with Renee Montagne, the host of National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." She's been in Afghanistan reporting for the past three weeks.
Renee, thanks for joining us. I know you've talked to General McChrystal and other officials there this week. What's their sense about their ability to provide security for the election?
RENEE MONTAGNE, National Public Radio: Well, General Stan McChrystal is pretty optimistic about what they're able to do. And obviously, in most of the country, there are troops and there isn't much of an insurgency.
Down in Helmand, they feel pretty good about being able to get at least around the main voting, main polling centers to manage to protect people who come to vote.
There's quite a bit less presence in Kandahar. And there are threats from Taliban in Kandahar, as well as Helmand, saying that, while people can vote in the city centers -- that would be the towns and the city centers -- in rural areas, the Taliban have threatened to patrol the streets and punish people with purple markings on their fingers. And so those are not areas, at least in Kandahar, where you have a lot of troops, NATO troops.
In Helmand, there's a good chance that enough polling stations will open to make it, as Richard Holbrooke, special ambassador to this region, has said, you know, acceptable enough to most of the people. But there's talk of as much as 25 percent of the polling centers ultimately not being available to the people. So a lot of people probably in those areas won't be able to vote.
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JEFFREY BROWN: And can you tell how much those Taliban threats against people, how much fear that's stirring among potential voters?
RENEE MONTAGNE: I think people, as I talk to people and talk to elders who have come in to Kandahar, people are scared. It's a little hard to tell, though, because, you know, it depends. In different communities, the elders are urging people to vote. I know in the eastern part of the country, which is also beset by Taliban, though a lot of elders are telling people to vote, asking their people to come out, and people will go along with that, if they feel even a sense of security by their own people.
But I think people in Kandahar, I think if you were in Pontwe, which is about 20 miles outside of Kandahar, and it's very much controlled by Taliban, I think people will have second thoughts.
This election is not as exciting as the first election back in 2004 when people voted overwhelmingly, even in spite of a certain fear of the Taliban. This time, you know, it's the second election, and the Taliban have gone really all out in these -- even just this last week or so to make it clear that they plan to fight this, this vote, and, you know, make this election not work out, at least where they are.
JEFFREY BROWN: I know you were there five years ago, Renee, for that first election. What's striking you this time? What does the campaign even look and feel like?
RENEE MONTAGNE: Well, what's really striking is that it's a real election. I mean, there's lots of worries because there's an insurgency, there's worries about -- a lot of talk about stuffing ballot boxes, fraud, a lot of concern about that.
But, in fact, in 2004, the election was really about exercising, going through the motions, in a sense. People were learning how to vote. Billboards were -- there are still some of them here now -- but most of the billboards were pictures of people putting their ballots in the box, and it was a training session, if you will.
This time, it's a real election in most parts of the country. You have candidates like Abdullah Abdullah and also Ashraf Ghani, the two main challengers to Hamid Karzai, you've got them out giving rallies, especially Abdullah Abdullah. He seems to have a rally every day and sometimes two. He's got a color scheme. It's robin's egg blue. In fact, he was in the north of the country. It's his territory, a city -- Mazari Sharif -- a very large city. And by some counts, 20,000 people came out to greet him all along the road as he came in.
Ashraf Ghani is a candidate we'd all recognize. He has a Web site, a very -- pretty sophisticated Web site. He has advisers. He has American advisers. Actually, James Carville is one of his advisers. President Karzai is acting more like an incumbent. He's not giving -- you can count on one hand the number of rallies he's given, but, you know, he's carrying himself like a president.
And then there's posters everywhere. And there are about 36 candidates all together, minor candidates, many of them quite interesting, and people quite sincere about running, at least, you know, certainly the top three candidates.
Possibility of a Runoff
JEFFREY BROWN: As we reported, President Karzai said today he was feeling confident about victory, and he was prepared to offer government jobs to the two main opponents you just mentioned. What's the sense on the ground there, though, about whether he's right to be so confident? Is there some possibility of a runoff?
RENEE MONTAGNE: There's definitely a possibility of a runoff. There's a lot of people who think -- and a lot of very smart people -- who think he will win outright. Many people are talking about, if he does, in fact, win outright, that there will be people charging fraud.
There is, though, a good chance of a runoff, because Ashraf Ghani has got a smaller percentage of the vote, but he would pull some votes away from Hamid Karzai. He'll pull some of the Pashtun vote away from Hamid Karzai, because he is Pashtun. And Abdullah Abdullah is, as I said, campaigning very, very hard.
It's hard to trust the polls here. And at the moment, if the latest poll, for what it's worth, had President Karzai up at 45 percent, which was well ahead of Abdullah Abdullah, who's coming in second. But Hamid Karzai has to win 51 percent of the vote in order for there not to be a runoff. And there's no poll that's ever showed him that popular in this country at this point in time. He's actually quite unpopular.
His greatest strength is that he's known. He's the president; he's there; he's pulling the levers of power; he's been on TV a lot; he's been on public -- sorry, not public television, state television, quite a different entity.
And complaints there that he's gotten the big -- it's been measured. He's gotten something like 70 percent of the coverage in this election season. So, you know, there's a good chance he will win outright, but there's also quite a good chance that there will be a runoff.
JEFFREY BROWN: All right, Renee Montagne of NPR in Kabul, thanks so much for talking to us.
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Bangalore: It was the biggest turnout at a town hall meeting in nearly a decade at Infosys Ltd.
The auditorium at the Electronic City headquarters of Infosys was overflowing with employees, anxious to find out what the company's most-famous founder would do in his second innings at India's second-largest software services company.
In his first week after returning as executive chairman and flanked by co-founders S.D. Shibulal and S. Gopalakrishnan and other top executives, N.R. Narayana Murthy addressed a packed auditorium that seats about 2,000 people, according to at least three people present at the gathering, who requested anonymity.
The auditorium was unusually quiet, as everyone listened to Murthy speaking about the challenges facing Infosys and the task ahead.
"A lot of care and pain was taken to ensure every employee at the company, even those not physically present, was part of the gathering," said a person who was present at the meeting.
Murthy, who will turn 67 on 20 August, comes to office by 7am most of the days, with his son Rohan by his side.
Murthy has been quietly putting together a blueprint for Infosys's revival, having identified three top priorities—increasing staff morale through regular interactions, boosting investors' confidence by sharing the progress and plans and meeting the top 100 clients of Infosys to protect existing contracts and get more business, according to company executives who spoke on condition of anonymity and experts familiar with the discussions.
Murthy is also aggressively pushing to cut costs, especially the ones linked to doing business at the location of the company's clients outside India. Infosys's on-site costs have increased from 36% of total costs in 2011 to 46% in March 2013.
Murthy declined a meeting to discuss the present situation at Infosys. "Thanks, but I am not in a position to speak since it is too early," he said.
Since his return in an executive role after nearly seven years, Murthy has hosted a number of town hall gatherings across the country to interact with employees. In the last such employee gathering, which was held during the first week of August, Murthy decided to come up with a new way of interacting with employees.
"He picked up about 15-20 questions that employees had posted and invited those employees to have lunch," said one of the executives present at the meeting. "He credited Rohan for coming up with the idea of having lunch with employees."
Company executives, both present and former, point to the fact that despite stepping down from all executive roles in 2006, Murthy never truly left his office in the "heritage building", a red brick block at the company's Electronic City headquarters, and continued to have a big say in all major strategic decisions that were undertaken by Infosys.
"If Murthy never really left Infosys and was still actively involved over the last few years when the company started slipping, the question is, what will he do different now in turning around the fortunes of Infosys?" asked a former Infosys executive, who declined to be named.
On 9 August, Murthy addressed investors after a gap of nearly eight years and provided the first glimpse of his plans for Infosys. Investors such as Barclays Capital Inc. that attended the sessions said Murthy identified three reasons for Infosys lagging behind rivals—lack of focus in winning large outsourcing contracts, higher cost of doing business and low employee confidence because of stagnant salaries.
"Mr. Murthy outlined three ongoing efforts to re-establish the franchise: improving sales efficiency; increasing automation and boosting employee productivity; and cost rationalization," Barclays analysts Bhuvnesh Singh and Hitesh Das said in a 12 August note after the interaction.
Management and strategy experts said Murthy's comeback also raises questions, both about his ability to recreate the old magic as well as the way in which he is executing the revival plan, especially with his son around.
"What it says is that the company lost its bearings and needs to get back to speed, so it needs some original leadership," said Jo-Ellen Pozner, assistant professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, who specializes in areas of corporate governance, leadership and succession planning. "When you're bringing back someone who has already said, 'I'm done,' there's only so much more they can do in terms of innovation."
One of the dangers of having a dominant founder back is that his authority will be difficult to challenge in bringing any fresh thinking, some experts say.
"Being there for so long and having brought the company so far, he has the authority and it's really hard to have opposing views," said Christian Stadler, associate professor of strategic management at Warwick Business School. "The other founders can probably still challenge him on certain matters, having worked together for so long, but for the next generation of leaders to do that would be nearly impossible. At stake, is his legacy. If things go terribly wrong, his great record will be tainted."
On his part, Murthy has engaged top consultants including McKinsey & Co. to help identify the next leaders who can take over soon, another person directly familiar with the move added.
Some experts said Murthy's urgent priority should be to hunt for an external chief executive and not tap into the existing pool.
"The real question is: why would Murthy be able to make a difference now when he and his colleagues were unable to make the difference from being around on the board and in the company? Murthy is the second-largest shareholder in the company; do you think he really left? The question is why will it make a difference now? Because essentially they still have the same individuals, they have just changed chairs," said Jean-Francois Manzoni, professor of human resources and organizational development at INSEAD, Singapore.
By focusing on trimming costs and shifting strategy to bid for bigger, riskier outsourcing contracts, Murthy may be attempting to arrest Infosys's decline in the medium term. But in an environment where global rivals such as International Business Machines Corp. and Accenture Plc. are increasingly betting on disruptive ideas, what Infosys may need is a more long-term transformation.
"You could argue that if Infosys could make a radical shift and move into higher-value services, it would be under a leader like Murthy. But then again Murthy knows more than anybody else that what made Infosys great was the old business model, so to do something new will be very risky. So, you might argue that to make that change would require someone to come in from outside," said Jaideep Prabhu, professor at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Infosys's policy of appointing co-founders as chief executives has disrupted succession planning, said Kavil Ramachandran, a professor at the Indian School of Business who specializes in family businesses and wealth management.
"They should have realized that the promoter team could not run things after a certain point and probably gotten more outsiders into the business," said Ramachandran.
IT industry leaders such as Subroto Bagchi, co-founder and chairman of Mindtree Ltd, said Murthy is capable of doing it again.
"People who are jumping in to provide informed commentary have never been in the boiler room. Let us respect the process of organization building. Yes, the future will be different, the challenges will be unscripted. But you are looking at a leader who was no flash in the pan," said Bagchi.
Nearly two years ago on the sprawling Electronic City campus, a bespectacled Rohan made a rare public appearance and walked briskly up to a stage to deliver a speech that he had prepared for his father's farewell from Infosys.
Rohan had quoted a famous line that most Star Trek aficionados will remember from the cult franchise—"Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"—to illustrate how he had come to terms with the fact that the company's need for his father's presence was far more important than his own desire.
Once again, Rohan finds himself on the centrestage. This time, however, the stage is vastly different from the time of his farewell speech for his father.
At 5 feet 7 inches, the curly-haired computer science graduate, stands a few inches taller than his illustrious father, but bears more than a passing resemblance to the older Murthy.
"Rohan is there in every important meeting. Just last week, he was in New York with his father to meet the founder of IPSoft, Chetan Dube, for discussing role of autonomics in Infosys's revival plan," a person familiar with the meeting said on condition of anonymity.
Rohan Murty's office said he was not available for comments.
The company needs somebody who can challenge (Narayana) Murthy's authority and ask questions, an Infosys executive said, requesting anonymity. "With most other founders capable of standing up to him in debates gone, perhaps Rohan can play that role," he said.
"Rohan, from what I have noticed, is very good as asking the right questions," said Sharmila Sen, executive editor-at-large at Harvard University Press, who oversees the Murty Classical Library of India and has worked closely with Rohan when he helped set up the library.
"There are people who know exactly what they want to do, set one goal and declare themselves. And then there are people who are more flexible and adapt to changing circumstances with their talents. Rohan belongs to the latter category," said Sen.
Even some of Murthy's most ardent supporters and diehard fans feel uncomfortable when asked about whether he should have involved his son.
Others like Bagchi reject the criticism. "Murthy has taught the term corporate governance to all of us. It belittles us (not him) to point a finger because Rohan will be by his side to help him make another demanding, stressful, tiring day easier. He will probably be more being an intellectual aide," said Bagchi. "If Murthy was to foist his son on Infosys, there are easier ways to do it."

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When West Virginia linebacker Doug Rigg received a text message from a teammate about fellow linebacker Branko Busick, Rigg had one thought.
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Players expressed shocked that Busick, a redshirt sophomore from Steubenville, Ohio, was arrested Monday night and charged with armed robbery after being accused of repeatedly striking a man with a gun. Coaches dismissed Busick from the team Tuesday.
Busick's former teammates said he was a great guy to hang around and could have been something special on the field.
"He was real cool with us in the locker room, and it was a real sad blow," Rigg said. "Plus, it does help destroy our depth because we don't have many people (at linebacker) with that experience. He was a guy going into his third year.
"Losing Branko is a big loss, but we're going to have to move on and see who can fill in his spot."
Even though Busick played in only two games last season, he provided depth at a position filled with inexperienced players. Linebacker remains one of the West Virginia's biggest question marks heading into the season.
Middle linebacker Najee Goode is the lone returning starter, but there's little proven depth behind him. With Busick gone, Goode is backed up by fifth-year senior Steve Paskorz, a Hampton graduate who transferred from Notre Dame and sat out last season, and redshirt freshman Jewone Snow.
There's even more questions about who will occupy the two outside linebacker spots. Rigg is the projected starter at strong-side linebacker. He played in all 13 games last season but in a limited capacity. Behind Rigg are redshirt sophomore Tyler Anderson and redshirt junior Donovan Miles. Neither has seen extended action.
Weak-side linebacker has the most uncertainty. Josh Francis, a speedy junior college transfer, and redshirt senior Casey Vance, who has played in 12 career games and made eight tackles, will compete for playing time.
"I'm a lot more agile, first-step quicker than Casey," Francis said, "but Casey's very smart, a very smart player. We kind of balance each other out."
Still, the uncertainty of whom will play next to Goode could bring the best out of the young players.
"That's something that's really going to get some people in gear, knowing they have a chance to play," Rigg said.
Note: Senior offensive guard Josh Jenkins, who injured his left knee during the spring game in April, had surgery last week and is out for the season, the university announced. Jenkins sprained his medial collateral ligament and medial patellar retinaculum in the Gold-Blue game. He had been rehabbing in hopes of avoiding surgery, but the university said doctors felt an operation was necessary. Jenkins, who started 11 games last season, will be in a leg brace for six weeks and won't be fully healed and strong enough to play football for six months. He is entitled to a medical hardship this season and could return for the 2012 season, the university said.


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