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...With so many challenges to face, the AU should not resist efforts to bolster its power and infrastructure. Gaddafi might go too far in his suggestion of one military force, one currency, and one passport, but perhaps measures to this effect would help prevent the internal strife and lack of accountability crippling parts of Africa today...
...This development represents not only a military withdrawal, but also a defeat for the AU and its ability to promote stability and order in its nations. Gaddafi’s pressure to bolster the AU can only help in this regard; though a continental army might be impractical, greater cooperation and expansion in the AU’s armed forces is necessary in order to restore some sort of stability to Somalia and support the transitional federal government...
...though Clarel epitomized so much that was right about Harvard, he also marched to his own beat. While some undergraduates seemed to treat relationships as a means to an end, establishing contacts as a way to bolster social capital, Clarel simply valued the authenticity of true human connection. Whether it was an impassioned conversation in his Thayer entryway or a hard-fought pickup soccer game across the river, Clarel lived to experience people and share his love of life with others...
...Karzai, of course, may simply be grandstanding with a view to bolstering his support ahead of the election. It was rescheduled, after all, because security conditions preclude holding a credible poll, and unless the Taliban is rolled back in much of the south and east of the country, even an August poll would remain in doubt - despite the fact that Karzai's term of office ends in May. But the criticisms he raises resonate with much of the Afghan public, which is particularly angered by air strikes that often inflict civilian casualties. Arming local warlords to fight the Taliban, Karzai...
...trial. In a perfect - or at least normal - world, the Illinois legislature would convene next Wednesday to ready a budget that is due two weeks later and set to work drafting bills to help the state. On the to-do list: battle the effects of a plummeting economy, bolster schools and the small-business sector, shore up agriculture and deal with a host of environmental issues, from clean coal to protecting Lake Michigan. "Nothing's getting done," says state representative Patricia Bellock, a Republican who sat in on the monthlong process hearings that led to the trial. "Nothing...