Word: begun
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...biggest problem is we end up hiring a large percentage of our TFs after the course has begun,” said Harris. “That just wastes money and makes for bad pedagogy...
...prohibitively weird-looking, blue-gray bulbs bald and ready for processing, like an army of alien vegetative creatures. We landed in a wheat field just across the road from the district governor's pathetic headquarters. It was Day 45 after the operation to retrieve Marjah from the Taliban had begun, and the highest-ranking U.S. military official, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was paying a congratulatory visit to the area. (See pictures of the U.S. Marines' offensive in Afghanistan...
...government in a box" that would unwrap itself as soon as the Taliban were tossed from town, but several U.S. civilian aid workers told me that the Afghan ministries were slow off the mark and hadn't yet arrived. The real work of winning Marjah hadn't really begun. (See pictures of Person of the Year 2009 runner-up General Stanley McChrystal...
...Unfortunately, the Pentagon thinks a threat is a terrible thing to waste, so the Navy has begun studying how to protect its fleet from such an attack. "A nuclear device detonated at an altitude in excess of 40 miles generates High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP), which is the focus of the U.S. Navy program," a recent Pentagon report says. Doing nothing, it warns, poses a risk "at the highest level." Hemp and high? You can't say the Navy doesn't have a sense of humor...
...even Medvedev, the country's leading liberal, has begun to take the tone of a belligerent, tweeting on Monday, "We have to continue fighting the terrorists without pleasantries, liquidating them without emotion or hesitation." This suggests that a new security regime could be on its way to the North Caucasus. Such a response could mark another turning point in the long-running conflict - and runs the risk of renewing a quagmire the government thought it was finally starting to escape...