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...accomplishment." "The scandal over Jean Sarkozy was a very personalized example of the way many of Sarkozy's actions are not only displeasing the public, but particularly alienating his base of conservative voters who no longer feel he's defending their values or political interest," says Jean-Marc Lech, co-president of the Ipsos polling group, which puts the President's approval rating at just 39%, down from more than 60% when he was first elected. "His biggest slump has come among conservatives seeing aspects of that activity they don't want any part of - with some now complaining 'this...
...takes a vast amount of money to be competitive in California, but the road to Sacramento is littered with the bodies of failed parvenus: Michael Huffington, the former Republican Congressman and ex-husband of Arianna, blew $28 million on a failed Senate bid in 1994; Al Checchi, a former co-chairman of Northwest Airlines, spent $40 million losing to Gray Davis in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1998; and the businessman Bill Simon, who campaigned unsuccessfully against Davis in 2002. All of them were seen as overconfident and underprepared, liable to self-destruct when pressed on basic policy questions. Raphael...
...page report goes into much greater detail about the potential for the military to misuse information that social scientists gather. Some anthropologists involved in the report say it's already happening. David Price, a professor of anthropology at St. Martin's University in Washington state and one of the co-authors of the AAA report, says the Army appears to be using the anthropological information to better target the enemy - which, if true, would be a gross violation of the anthropological code. One Human Terrain anthropologist told the Dallas Morning News that she wasn't worried if the information...
...policy is not against anthropologists helping the military - a few of the co-authors of the AAA report, in fact, work closely with the military. But McFate's larger point stands: for the past few decades, anthropologists have had little influence in military or foreign policy circles. As American troops adopt a counterinsurgency strategy, cultural knowledge has become a foremost Pentagon concern. They know historically the record for winning a short-term counterinsurgency is not good, so they've once again sought out cultural expertise. The discipline's checkered history, however, has made many anthropologists sensitive to the parallels between...
...what derailed that original strategy - it was a virtually identical scheme to the one used to transport the weapons used in a December 2005 attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore - but Headley allegedly played a key role in Plan B. "In March 2008, Headley and his co-conspirators discussed potential landing sites for a team of attackers who would arrive by sea," according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's office. From April to July 2008, Headley took "boat trips in and around the Mumbai harbor" to find a suitable landing spot...