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General Myers also suggests there is growing consensus in Washington that Afghanistan's needs require a greater commitment from the U.S. In the strip of Afghanistan stretching from Kabul eastward to the Pakistan border, where al-Qaeda and the Taliban are still potent, the principal mission of the U.S. must for now remain military, Myers says. But in the remaining three-quarters of the country, it might be time to "flip our priorities," he says, and make reconstruction paramount. "That's what we're debating right now inside government." Myers says rebuilding Afghanistan would not be "a U.S.-only effort...
...defending ECAC tournament champions and a consensus pick to finish in the top two again this season, there are plenty of teams gunning to knock off the Crimson. Dealing with being the “team to beat” at home is not easy, but facing hostile crowds on the road and dealing with 10-hour bus rides through blizzards hardly helps the situation...
Just two players on its roster, Scott and Gambale, are seniors. The consensus among the team is that there’s no direction...
...organizations, who have staged a boycott of The Michigan Daily, the student newspaper. Protests were sparked by the caption of “Buckwheat sings” under a picture of the mixed-race American Idol contestant Justin Guarini, which served as the final breaking point for the widening consensus that the Daily has overstepped the bounds of “simple errors” too many times for its actions to be taken lying down. Students demanded that steps be taken to prevent such mistakes from occurring again. What they got instead was a half-hearted and masked editorial...
According to a 2001 Gallup Poll that was reported by the Newhouse News Source, 62 percent of whites and 91 percent of African Americans believe that we haven’t yet reached racial equality in America. Even putting aside the huge gap in perception, there is undeniable consensus that racism is still a part of the mainstream. If not perpetrated by extremists, how then is such a feeling so thoroughly ingrained in our culture? Through the very nature of our dialogue. In the case of the Daily, as posted on the boycott’s website, these subtleties were...