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...even have to take issue with the "Douches emeriti" picks. Harvard has a nearly endless crop of potential options—Henry Kissinger, Ted Kaczyinski, Jared Kushner, etc.—and we get these four. Benazir Bhutto? For real? Last we checked, Bhutto won an international human rights prize before being assassinated. And she's classified by the oh-so-knowledgeable GQ editors as one of the top four examples of "the Harvard douche." Are they out of their minds? (Mira Sorvino also seems like a pretty...
...even have to take issue with the "Douches emeriti" picks. Harvard has a nearly endless crop of potential options—Henry Kissinger, Ted Kaczyinski, Jared Kushner, etc.—and we get these four. Benazir Bhutto? For real? Last we checked, Bhutto won an international human rights prize before being assassinated. And she's classified by the oh-so-knowledgeable GQ editors as one of the top four examples of "the Harvard douche." Are they out of their minds? (Mira Sorvino also seems like a pretty...
...called Adventures in Grave Hunting), says she was once escorted from the Great Mausoleum by security after leaving flowers at Jean Harlow's grave. "If the Jackson family wants privacy, they could not have picked a better place than this," says Burks. "This place is the cream of the crop for protecting celebrities...
...monitoring the country's poppy fields on the ground and from aerial surveillance cameras and they have found that farmers this year planted far fewer poppies - an estimated drop from last year of about 79,000 acres (about 32,000 hectares), or 22% of the country's entire opium crop. Afghanistan's output usually accounts for more than 90% of the world's heroin. The price that Afghan farmers get for their opium has also crashed, dropping by a third since last summer, from about $30 a pound ($70 per kilogram) to about $20 a pound ($48 a kilogram). (Read...
That more efficient cultivation has hardly been addressed by the NATO campaign to eradicate opium, according to the report. U.N. officials call the military campaign "a failure," because the strategy has focused on destroying poppy fields, without offering farmers an equivalent income if they opt to grow other crops. Fewer than 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) have been eradicated - accounting for less than 4% of Afghanistan's opium crop. Despite that small result, Costa says the military campaign has made Afghanistan's farmers far more secretive, further complicating international efforts. "Before, opium stocks were in shacks and warehouses...