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...Uncle Ben's Rice) as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy to sell the American point of view, and announced that the President would make his case for a continued war in Afghanistan in a nationally televised address Thursday. But Ross's fluency in Arabic is a tremendous asset in making the case to middle-class Muslims and countering bin Laden's adept exploitation of anti-American grievances in the Muslim world...
...wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun--the dominant tribe of southern Afghanistan and the Taliban itself--Haq was a precious asset to the U.S., which desperately wants an erosion of Taliban authority in the south and east, where American commandos have launched the hunt for Osama bin Laden...
...Public trust is the most precious asset these organizations have," says nonprofit adviser Bob Boisture, who notes that the IRS hasn't expanded oversight in more than two decades, despite explosive growth in the charitable sector. That's where Schmidt comes in, using the information superhighway to create a national infrastructure for nonprofits. No more one-way streets...
...wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun--the dominant tribe of southern Afghanistan and the Taliban itself--Haq was a precious asset to the U.S., which desperately wants an erosion of Taliban authority in the south and east, where American commandos have launched the hunt for Osama bin Laden...
...many years. Her efforts on the city’s School Committee show a commitment to closing the gap in student achievement across socioeconomic and racial divides. Simmons’ emphasis on setting priorities and following through on them in a concerted and systematic way will be an important asset to a council that often lacks the discipline to stick to a focused agenda. She has also resisted the Harvard-bashing that is the pastime of many of the council’s incumbents...