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...highest office” in the land: that of citizen. It will be up to your generation, the first of the 21st century, to define and shape the new approach that will help us overcome the challenges and seize the opportunities of our times. So congratulations and carpe diem; the world both needs you and awaits...

Author: By Alan A. Khazei | Title: A New Era of Big Citizenship | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...many of the team’s players are Californians. “We stay at usually team members’ houses, and they give us awesome food and cook for us,” she explains. “We usually don’t use our per diem much, and so we usually go shopping with that money...

Author: By Natalie duP. C. Panno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Making the Traveling Team | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...spring of 2006, the psychological isolation that 1st Platoon had been experiencing throughout the deployment was becoming nearly total. "First Platoon had become insane," declared platoon-member Sergeant John Diem flatly. "What does an infantry rifle platoon do? It destroys. That's what it's trained to do. Now turn that 90 degrees to the left, and let slip the leash, and it becomes something monstrous. It's not even aware of what it's doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Anatomy of an Iraq War Crime | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...Times, the brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, is a CIA source, providing bases for the CIA as well as the U.S. military and serving as a go-between with parts of the Taliban. If it sounds a lot like Vietnam when Vietnam started to really come apart, it is - President Diem's grotesquely corrupt brother was a CIA source and a noxious agent of influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the CIA Can't Be Picky About Afghan Partners | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...take it to the bank that the CIA knows all of this, just as it knew in the early '60s that Diem's brother was a corrupt thug. You can also be certain that the CIA would prefer to have untainted sources. But the bone-dry bed of reality in Afghanistan is that there are few if any to be had. In that country, you survive by renting clans, tribes and narcotics dealers, which comes with their unsavory business whether you like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the CIA Can't Be Picky About Afghan Partners | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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