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...fragile government of Hamid Karzai, the enemy is looking to turn up the heat in the spring. That suggests chances of an early departure by U.S. forces are diminishing, and the line between hunting al-Qaeda and ensuring the security of Karzai's government may begin to blur. Shah-i-Kot may be another reminder of why Afghanistan is not famous for short wars...
...threats, but each agency kept the others in the dark about what it was doing. That division of labor failed completely in spotting clues to Sept. 11, so it's good news that in the race to stop the next attack, the lines between fiefs have finally started to blur. The Sept. 11 terrorists crossed national boundaries at will. In response, more FBI agents are working overseas than ever before. The Patriot Act passed in October gives the CIA greater access to law-enforcement information and allows the nsa to obtain warrants more easily for domestic wiretaps. In Afghanistan...
...thought that 40–60 pages of text about English literature could so completely distract me from the real world. The Olympics went by (or are going by…I confess, I’m not sure if they’re done or not) in a blur; senior bacchanalia is nothing more than a few discarded e-mails and the faint notion that That Guy—a strange creature called the non-writer—seems hung over on a Wednesday morning...
...group searching for the least common liberal denominator, like the proposed Progressive Alliance, will only conflate their unique causes and blur the distinctions that make these groups so valuable. Even worse, if one narrow interest were able to hijack control of the Alliance, it would risk weakening many of Harvard’s progressive groups all at once...
...American market. They will face stiff competition from The Strokes, a group of New York City natives whose debut album Is This It is lighting up the charts in the U.S., following a massive publicity buildup by The Strokes in Britain. Better established British rock bands like Radiohead and Blur are also eating up what little consumer market exists for independent music in America. Many budding talents have been nipped in the past by the most expensive and exclusive media airwaves in the world. But if these groups do pull through, they will likely be stronger and their music richer...