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Quietly, U.S. diplomats, aid workers and military trainers have been working in the frontier tribal areas with the army and whatever brave tribal maliks they can find. The idea, say Pakistani military officials, is to identify fast projects - small dams or marble quarries, for example - and get them built and working under the protection of those tribes that will benefit directly. Only this way, say officials, can the tribes turn away from the militant-run enterprises - banditry and running guns and drugs - that earn them money...
Sachs' reference to our current state of "peacetime" is a slap in the face of every brave serviceman and -woman deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. In the story's illustration, a man doesn't want to hear that military spending is up. Why should it be? It's not like there...
...construction beautiful. His work was whimsical and full of humor; it was subversive, political and incredibly sexual, but he had a seriousness about it, and he was so young. He was never afraid of being ugly in his work, either. Sometimes it was beautifully ugly, and that's very brave. His was an important voice, and he carried the torch for a new generation...
...been promoting her book, but she had inadvertently become the poster mom for a movement. "Jenny gave us a face," says Kim Stagliano, a mother of three autistic girls and one of the founders of the popular blog Age of Autism. "I feel like Jenny going public was pretty brave ... There is a certain personality within the Curebie community [parents who believe they can cure their autistic children], and that...
Also impressive is Jerome Stephens Jr., who plays the young Simba. Though only a skinny boy of nine, he manages to pack a musical punch. While his lines largely read as formulaic and somewhat trite (“I just want to be brave like you, Dad,” he insists cloyingly to his father), and the development of his character is confined to the wild, wide-eye child role, he’s undeniably a vocal powerhouse packed in a pint-sized body...