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...Pakistan TAKING FLIGHT Afghan workers are preparing shelters for the estimated 20,000 Pakistanis who have fled into eastern Afghanistan amid a military crackdown in the Bajaur region, where government troops are clashing with Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. Pakistani officials say coalition troops battling the Taliban on the Afghan side of the border must do more to stop the flow of rebels into Bajaur...
CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Economic Crisis Debate Running Mates Momentum ACTION Amid all the finger-pointing, Democrats and many Republicans agree that Barack Obama may now have a potentially decisive advantage. The furious electorate seems to be placing much of the blame for fiscal disaster and Washington's bedlam on President Bush and the GOP--the party of John McCain. National polls and many pundits suggested that Obama bested McCain in the first showdown. More important, McCain made little progress toward his two vital goals: painting...
...left, or rather, "the monsters that the new laboratories of what we in Europe call Leftism and what Americans call liberalism are giving birth to." In its better days, says Levy, the left stood against evil and injustice and all the worst aspects of fascist and totalitarian systems. Now, amid a surge in anti-American, anti-Semitic and antiliberal sentiments, the left appears "sometimes more right-wing than the right wing itself." It's quite a damning statement, but one that is undercut by Levy's reliance on insular and obscure historical examples that clearly resonate...
...letter appears unlikely to change Harvard’s policy toward ROTC, which was banned from campus in 1969 amid anti-military sentiment during the Vietnam War. ROTC has since been blocked from returning due to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which bars openly gay men and women from military service...
...That's not to say that Boehner hasn't been an effective partisan leader as well: last year the GOP won or drew more rounds than it lost to Speaker Pelosi. Its most recent victory: a relaxation on offshore drilling rules - though that victory was lost amid the bailout furor and stock market chaos...