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...grass-roots campaign focused on giving people more direct access to government. There's a push in Washington to get members of Congress to post their complete schedules online so voters can see how much time they spend with lobbyists and business groups. Would you consider doing that as Governor...
...Devolution of Afghanistan into�druglord-run provinces is a direct, if unintentional, result of five years of U.S. management of the Afghan war. When the U.S. invaded in October 2001, it was with a small number of mostly special-forces soldiers; the strategy all but ensured that the U.S. would have to outsource the messy and labor-intensive duties of maintaining order in a power vacuum. This meant using, and paying, the existing warlords to do the U.S.'s dirty work against Mullah Omar's Taliban and bin Laden's al-Qaeda...
...manner of a friendly prosecutor, Lieberman steered Petraeus toward his objective--a clear statement from the general that such a resolution would hurt the morale of our troops in Iraq and give the enemy "encouragement." Petraeus, clearly uncomfortable with this line of questioning, refused to give a direct answer: "A commander in such an endeavor would obviously like the enemy to feel there was no hope...
...factory that will start production this year. Intel has poured $525 million into two chip-assembly and -packaging plants, one of which opened in 2005, while the second will start production this year. These facilities ship from Chengdu's airport to customers around the globe. Overall, foreign direct investment in Chengdu totaled $1.9 billion from 2001 to 2005. The results have been spectacular. GDP growth in Chengdu averaged 13.3% between 2001 and 2005, outpacing Shanghai's 11.9%. In 2005, per capita GDP reached $2,700, still only a third of Shanghai's but 70% greater than in 2000. Wages have...
...aged Charley has the chance to have “the ‘one more day’ that so many wish they had with a lost loved one—a day to ask questions, seek forgiveness, and reexamine the life you never had” (a direct quotation from Albom’s website). If that description isn’t sufficient warning, “For One More Day” also has the dubious distinction of being the first book sold across the nation at Starbucks chains. This book needs to be destroyed.I first encountered...