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...United States must increase troop levels in Afghanistan, help limit the country??s drug cultivation, and train and equip the nation’s armed forces, the nation’s ambassador to the United States said at a JFK Jr. Forum event last night. Ambassador Said T. Jawad said the troubled Middle-Eastern nation—which became a focus of U.S. anti-terrorism efforts following the September 11 attacks—has struggled to rebuild, as the United States shifted its resources toward Iraq. “State building became uncoordinated,” Jawad said...
Last month, ethnic Albanians in Kosovo celebrated the one-year anniversary of their country??s independence from Serbia. This anniversary is, in some ways, a triumph for Kosovo. The United Nations-backed government is slowly taking over some of its own administration, although 15,000 NATO troops are still deployed there to maintain security and internal stability...
...Sometimes these protectionist clauses are not included in the original bills sent by executives to a country??s legislatures—and yet they creep in, in the form of amendments and edits. In America, for instance, the incoming Obama administration was so keen on passing the ARRA around Valentine’s Day that the final version of the bill got passed in PDF format; not all legislators had a final version of the 700-page document they were passing, which, as it turns out, will help create a federal deficit this year that would...
...This is not to say that the country??s best sports stars don’t take pleasure in their work—professional athletes devote hours to perfecting their skills for more than money. But, the NLL benefits from its lack of scale and small-market feel. Blazers rookie Gary Bining doesn’t care how big the league gets, as long as it brings in appreciative fans...
...faculty to decrease class sizes, bringing the total number to 102 full-time professors before recent departures for the Obama administration. In the process, she has poached more tenured faculty—including Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most cited legal scholar in the country??from other institutions during her five-year deanship than during the previous 20 years combined.Other programs that Kagan introduced testify to the six years she spent soaking up a more collegial atmosphere as a University of Chicago professor, her first academic appointment. In an effort to improve the student experience?...