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...lobbied for another troop surge to help battle the rising insurgency in the country's south. But lower-level commanders on the ground have something else to add to that wish list. Says one: "Frankly, defeating the Taliban is the least of our worries. They are not going to beat us. What is killing this country is corruption and drugs. That is not for NATO but for the Afghan government to deal with." Some 8,000 more troops, which would constitute the two brigades that McNeil wants, may help secure volatile areas and clear the way for development - key steps...
...Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Wallace Stevens. And it has the distinction of having chosen a title that doesn't sound nearly as quaint as those of the other new magazines Time wrote about that week: Tiger's Eye, Masses & Mainstream, Instead and even that bible of the Beat Generation, Neurotica...
...unique, combining various different musical elements while maintaining cohesion. This is especially apparent on some of the album’s more distinctive tracks, such as “Open Book” or “Going On.” The former contains a heavy scattershot beat and a stuttering melody that periodically erupts into a chorus of “Lion King”-esque primal chanting, while the latter, which is the album’s most immediately gratifying song, integrates droning voices and mellow strings into an uplifting dance track about taking initiative...
...even in this video. “Break the Ice,” the new single off Spears’ album “Blackout,” follows animated Super Britney as she fights off evil robots and runs around a futuristic world to the up-tempo beat of the track. But her signature panting riffs make the viewer guess that maybe this song isn’t about fighting robotic enemies at all. If you listen closely, you can hear Spears sing, “Can you rise to the occasion? I’m patiently waiting because...
...percent. Twenty-nine percent of respondents replied that they “don’t know.” Jarret A. Zafran ’09, the president of the Harvard College Democrats, said that he thought it no surprise that both of the Democratic presidential candidates beat McCain in the poll. “Obama is defined as the candidate of the future and a representative of the younger generation,” Zafran said. “He is more in tune with student opinion today, which is why he would consider controlling the cost of higher...