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While missing out on a life of danger, consulting-crazed undergraduates do get to look forward to other forms of excitement and a culture all its own. Finance taught me first and foremost of the Manhattan salad bar—where a salad costs $8, but is teeming with ingredients of your own selection, doused with dressing and prepared (tossed) as you watch. Second, I learned about collecting “points”—the lifeblood of consultants on the go. “Points” are well known, and go by many names?...
...duties are the preserve of the 4,800 foreign troops grouped under the banner of the International Security Assistance Force, whose small numbers confine its work to the capital, Kabul. A number of U.S. legislators and South Asia experts are quietly warning that the security situation there is in danger of unraveling in the face of Taliban resurgence and internecine warlord conflicts, and that turning the situation around requires either expanding the terms of the U.S. deployment to stabilizing Afghanistan, or else significantly expanding ISAF. (ISAF has one advantage in that it has drawn on major troop contributions from NATO...
...suggests a universal principle: government should involve itself in only the most serious health-care situations for the most needy people. Unfortunately, neither party seems in much of a mood for a careful discussion of first principles, and a health-care system that is a national disgrace seems in danger of becoming a national disaster...
...ghostlike storage bunkers, where the Navy kept some of its munitions before it left. The silos are now historical relics. But you will find other marks the U.S. military left on the people of Vieques and their land, including an occasional sign that reads, NO TRESPASSING. AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY. DANGER. EXPLOSIVES...
...down to a town in southern Sumatra. Alerted that something was wrong when police moved in to arrest a third JI suspect in the same town, Azahari and his companion fled, escaping moments before the police arrived. That narrow miss could have grave consequences. "Commanders like Azahari are the dangerous ones," says a senior regional intelligence official. "If we can get Azahari and maybe seven or eight others like him?cut off the head of the beast?then the ordinary foot soldiers won't be much danger any more...