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...combat, guiding missiles and bombs to their destinations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. President Reagan opened the fledgling navigational system to nonmilitary uses in 1983 after Soviet fighter jets shot down Korean Air flight 007, a passenger jet that had accidentally strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board...
Benafsha's death yielded just a few paragraphs in the day's wire reports, lost in the stream of bigger names and numbers. She was wrapped in a blanket inside a particle-board coffin and loaded into the trunk of the Toyota where her brother sat next to her remains for the long drive back. Within hours, another deadly U.S. air strike in Farah's Bala Boluk district would kill scores of civilians and reverberate from Kabul to Washington. Criticized around the world and beset by demonstrations in Afghanistan, the U.S. military continues to dispute the high death-toll estimates...
...policymaking committee's other critical task is to reform the IMF itself. Its 24-member executive board is dominated by Western nations, and doesn't take into account the rise of new powers like Brazil, Russia, India and China - the "BRIC" nations. Under a complex system of voting rights, Italy has greater clout than Russia or India. "Belgium and the Netherlands have one seat each, the same as Brazil, which is totally absurd," says Cornell's Prasad...
Geithner has said he'd like to see the board reduced to 20 seats, with more say for the BRIC bloc. Although that makes economic sense, it will be very hard to achieve, warns Prasad: "It's a zero-sum game: for someone to gain a bigger role, someone else has to lose theirs...
...drafted by the Pistons in 1981, but we didn't become the Bad Boys until Coach Daly came on board in 1983. He taught us how to win and gave us the courage to stand tall in the face of adversity. It was never enough to settle for being good; we aspired to be great...