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...finally starting to pay attention. Its ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has tapped top Drug Enforcement Administration official Harold D. ("Doug") Wankel to lead an intensified drive to nail kingpins, shut down heroin-production labs, eradicate poppy fields and persuade farmers to plant food crops. If the drug cartels aren't stopped, the U.S. fears, they could sow more chaos in Afghanistan, which al-Qaeda and the Taliban could exploit to wrest back power. "We need to make a difference in the next couple of years," says Wankel. Miwa Kato, a Kabul-based officer for the U.N.'s Office...
...afraid to lead and make tough decisions. Edwards depends on his good looks and smooth speaking for support; Bush sticks to his principles. I will always back a candidate who has true values and stands by them. That is why I will be voting for Bush again this November. Doug Le Mahieu Pella, Iowa, U.S. I am extremely disillusioned by American politics, but my hopes have been resuscitated by Kerry's choice of Edwards as the vice-presidential candidate. Although I believe his selection was made for many of the wrong reasons, a man of Edwards' character, decency and competence...
...communities of Laverton, 400 km north of here, and Coonanna, 180 km east, and the town of Norseman, 190 km to the south. "God bless us through the heat, dust and flies," says Norseman deacon Les Schulz. A further 200 km south of Norseman is Esperance. Here Anglican reverend Doug Murray recently returned from one of his regular 2,000-km runs to the South Australian border and back, ministering to roadhouses and sheep stations. "They're nearly all Catholic," he says of the people he visits, "but that's all right, because I'm the church presence out there...
...some ways doug murray, too, was born again. After 23 years as principal of Esperance High, in 1994 Murray received his priestly calling at age 66. But instead of taking himself off for seminary training, Murray embarked on a long-distance diploma in theology. "Five years and 25,000 km of travel" later, he became one of Australia's first priests ordained under the Anglican Church's Ministering Communities program. Today Murray holds communion services, prepares families for confirmation and advises the Esperance parish on educational issues - all for no salary - alongside a volunteer army of pastoral care and social...
...other countries who have the same genes as Americans but not the same problems. Maybe our habit of blaming others, faulting our ancestors or suing McDonald's--instead of admitting that obesity is our problem and we must fix it--is what made us fat in the first place. DOUG FARQUHAR Washington...