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...Peacekeeping is one of them. "The Americans," says Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in London, "hate peacekeeping, and they're not very good at it." Many European armed forces, by contrast, are now structured with peacekeeping as their primary mission. In Bosnia, says Grant, American forces will not walk down a street unprotected, while British and French soldiers soak up information in cafes. Unsurprisingly, it is Europeans who shoulder the burden of keeping the peace in Kosovo, Bosnia and now Kabul. But suggest to European policymakers that their primary military role should be mopping up after...
...spirit to Rock's raunch-hound anthems (in Big Top Women, he rhymes: "She had hundred-dollar bills stuck in her thong/ Well big top women sure got it goin' on"). Hank Jr. and Rock are content to crow about what naughty boys they are. Hank III, in contrast, is quieter, more self-deprecating and ultimately more moving in his portrayal of bad behavior than most artists in any genre on the radio. That may not make him the towering figure his grandpa was, but it does make him a chip off the original block...
...were thousands of al Qaeda members in Afghanistan - Afghans, Uzbeks, Arabs, Chechens, Pakistanis - and we don't know how many were killed, how many fled the country, and how many are hiding. We think we're looking for hundreds of people, but we don't really know." Certainly, in contrast to the American military, the CIA seems to be here for the duration. In Mazar they have rented a house for 6 months at $2500 a month. "They took an option to extend for a year," says the owner, "they're planning to be here for as long...
Yesterday’s statement from the Harvard administration calling for stricter and more consistent punishment of students who illegally occupy University buildings sends a clear signal that President Lawrence H. Summers intends to enforce the University’s rules. In contrast to his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, Summers says that students disrupting University employees will ordinarily face suspension. The new policy clarifies the University’s stance toward protests like last spring’s living wage sit-in and makes clear the potential risks to students taking such actions...
...Contrast that with the so-called civil disobedience of which Ariel Z. Weisbard ’02-’03 writes in “Why Janitors Are Willing To Go To Jail” (Opinion, Feb 25). These janitors are not complaining of not having basic rights and freedoms; they are not protesting the injustice of being denied the right to vote or assemble or control their own fate. These janitors are protesting that their union’s negotiating team was not able to get them an additional $3 an hour pay raise in the midst...