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...missions, which not only helps the country's international standing but allows thousands of soldiers to earn enough for early retirement. A coup, with soldiers taking the reigns of power, would end that because the U.N. doesn't like to use troops from a military dictatorship. Many newspapers and civil-society groups have called for a new party to be formed by local hero Muhammad Yunus, who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in microcredit. But though the affable economist has occasionally commented on his country's crisis-it is important that parties field "clean candidates...
...comes by that commitment naturally. She begins her column by citing her father's inspiring call more than 40 years ago for all Americans to embrace public service. That clarion call motivated a generation of Americans. When she is not producing best-selling books on topics ranging from civil rights to poetry, Kennedy devotes much of her time to community service and New York City's public schools. In the coming months, she will write a series of columns about extraordinary individuals serving communities around the country. Her own commitment to service, combined with her literary skill, makes...
While supposedly waging a war on terrorism, in reality the U.S. today finds itself embroiled in multiple civil wars: Iraq, Afghanistan and now Somalia. Some die-hard proponents of liberal interventionism would like to see Sudan added to the list. But does anyone in Washington really understand what the American military can achieve in such situations, when Sunnis are fighting Shi'ites or warlords are fighting Islamists...
...into responsibility for the war conducted by the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest newspaper. (Short answer: the Japanese military and government, but not the emperor.) The equivalent exercise in the U.S. would be the New York Times devoting weeks to an investigation of who was at fault in the Civil...
...Illinois Senator frequently talks with T.D Jakes, a black minister who runs a Texas megachurch and whose sermons are broadcast around the country. Among the circle of advisers on Obama's team are a core of African-Americans who, like Obama, were born after the start of the Civil Rights movement and attended elite colleges. Cassandra Butts, a law school classmate of Obama's at Harvard and a former top aide to former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, will play a key role in his domestic policy, while Susan Rice, a former Clinton State Department official, has been advising...