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...balls were passed out to the kids after the Americans landed. A Defense Science Board study found that during NATO's 1999 air war over Kosovo, Commando Solo broadcasts were largely ineffective. No one knows how effective tactical psyops will now be in a country as isolated and backward as Afghanistan has become. Afghans should be starved for information. The Taliban regime is unpopular among large segments of the population. But the Taliban has had an iron grip on what Afghans see and hear - and therefore a long lead in the psyops...
...brave souls who try to forecast the U.S. economy spend much of their time looking backward for data and precedents. So when TIME's Board of Economists gathered in New York City, its members referred often to the last time the nation was steeling itself for war: 1990-91, between the invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. Back then, a relatively quick military victory helped spark the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. In today's protracted campaign against terrorism, few expect a decisive win that could trigger a quick rebound...
...governed by handpicked local leaders. "Many Arabs and Muslims feel they had 10 centuries of great cultural achievement that ended with European colonialism," says John Esposito, director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. "Now they feel impotent. The West, they feel, looks at them as backward and is only interested in their oil. Their sense of self-worth and identity is wounded...
...pieces of equipment to the site, including one 345 Excavator, his men remove the body parts by hand. Already he has found a severed hand with a wedding band on it. One of his employees pulled out a fire fighter whose neck was snapped so badly he was looking backward. Another employee temporarily lost it Friday morning after finding a dead infant strapped into a car seat in a driverless vehicle...
...greatest delights in The Corrections is the experience of coming to know Franzen’s characters, who are all trying, in one way or another, to make those necessary adjustments referred to by the title. His careful rendering of the constant struggle, forward motion and backward glances inherent in every life make the novel a full and rich experience. It is through the Lamberts, in the movements of their carefully portrayed lives, that the novel achieves its richness. Of course, it is more than a matter of who the Lamberts are; it is also in the way we perceive...