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...came from the same moderate, nationalist, royalist ranks. It is unlikely that many chieftains from inside Afghanistan braved Taliban wrath to come. Nowhere sat a member of the Northern Alliance. Nor did a single so-called moderate Taliban attend. From Kabul, Taliban spokesmen jeered that the gathering was a bunch of self-seekers out to pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send a personal representative. And the maneuvering in Peshawar ignores a harsh reality. When you ask four Afghan refugees who should rule their country, you get four different answers. Ghulan Sarwar...
Robin Hood uses the same approach that made its founders rich. Target charities must meet their goals effectively, cost-efficiently and repeatedly or risk losing funding. Says Saltzman, 39, the lone public-policy wonk in the original bunch (he formerly worked in New York's public schools): "We were pioneers in applying due diligence and measuring outcomes." Now they have to keep the trail open for others to follow...
...It’s just another symptom of their culture of arrogance—image over substance—and it’s finally catching up with them… Everybody in the business knows just how little Harvard students work. They’re essentially a lazy bunch. A lot of them aren’t even that smart...
...interweaves fact and fiction, creating a tapestry of paranoia worthy of Oliver Stone. So the acknowledged fact that some Harvard students are lazy (yeah, I’m talking to you, classics concentrators) becomes, in the mind of Inouye, evidence that we are all a “lazy bunch.” The presence on campus of a few meatheads, legacies and dim bulbs with bizarre talents is transformed into unmistakable proof that we’re not “that smart.” And our obnoxious but understandable arrogance becomes, paradoxically, evidence that we aren?...
...every sign of breaking through this ignorance: He takes a firearm safety class in Massachusetts. Rates of private gun ownership in Canada are low enough that even this act might be viewed as radical. He listens patiently to the instructor, and he offers the obligatory commentary on the loopy bunch that signs up for these classes. Anyone who has handled a gun before, or who has seen the thrilled glint in the eye of a liberal appreciating for the first time the heft and power of a loaded nine-millimeter, is now waiting for the description of the intense excitement...