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...most NATO nations either can't or won't send more troops, and the U.S. armed forces are spread thin between two wars. So the next U.S. Administration may perforce have to abandon the big stick in favor of speaking more softly. Army General David McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has made it clear that there is no purely military solution. "It's not just a question about more soldiers," he has said. "It's a question about more governance, about more economic aid, about more political assistance for the government of Afghanistan...
...countries like Sierra Leone or East Timor or Kosovo, there may not be the resources to make it work for vast nations like the D.R.C. or Sudan. Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister, is among those who believe that just because something is difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it." Says Evans: "In Congo, the problem is insufficient resources. Maybe MONUC has to be reinforced and upgraded. In Darfur, you have a lackluster result, yes, but you had to have peacekeepers with a mandate that was accepted by the government. A full-bore invasion [would have had] catastrophic results...
...eating disorders as a result of calorie cards? Really? The causes of eating disorders run a lot deeper than a bunch of little papers. Maybe if we attempted to abandon the anal retentive behavior that characterizes us as Harvardians to the outside world, we could effectively steer away from eating disorders...
Ventura did not abandon his rough habits or smooth his swagger during the gubernatorial campaign, and a plurality of the audience evidently felt charmed rather than insulted. He brandished his cigars, a habit he says he picked up on a movie set from Arnold Schwarzenegger. ("Jeh-see," he intones in a convincing Terminator imitation, "have a sto-gie.") On the hustings, Ventura regularly told audiences what pollsters could have warned him they didn't want to hear. At a rally at the University of Minnesota, he reminded students that he opposed expanding government subsidies for college tuition...
...Peter Jenkin Morgan was watching with a knowing eye on Sept. 15, when some 4,000 Lehman Brothers employees in London's Canary Wharf lost their jobs in a flash - and cut loose with abandon in the business district's pubs. Champagne corks popped, and conversations seemed to be on steroids as everyone wanted to talk. Surrounded by cardboard boxes holding their desk contents, the newly unemployed bankers drank for hours. For a night, at least, Canary Wharf looked like a carnival...