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Miguel A. Estrada, the 1986 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate whose confirmation to the federal bench was impeded by a Democratic filibuster, conceded defeat last week and withdrew his nomination...
...evidence not all too clear that it never went very far away. While the world's attention has been fixed on Iraq, the other war has sparked back into life. Having nursed themselves back to health in Pakistan, Taliban forces are re-energized and determined to avenge their defeat. The Taliban's old structures may still be largely intact; a Kabul-based security official says the "neo-Taliban" is guided by many of the same men who ran Afghanistan's theocracy from 1996 through 2001, when it provided protection for Osama bin Laden and the terrorist camps of al-Qaeda...
Robots In 1960 General Motors was the first to put one on an assembly line; before long, robots would invade manufacturing, taking over tedious tasks and unleashing a generation of science-fiction authors who envisioned man's defeat at the hands of the machines...
...relatively small "trip-wire" force of 37,000 American troops in South Korea? Where would the Pentagon turn if it had to rush additional combat troops to the 38th parallel? Might a lack of ready reinforcements force Washington to consider using nuclear weapons to save South Korea from defeat...
...created by the occupation has given them a political and operational rallying point around which they hope to extend that support. Tighter security in the U.S. leaves Americans at home considerably safer from attack now than they were two years ago, but al-Qaeda's objective is not to defeat the U.S. at home; it is to drive the U.S. out of Muslim lands. The standing of the U.S. in Arab and Muslim countries has declined, rather than risen, in the two years since 9/11, and that more than anything will help sustain al-Qaeda...