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...pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...worried that Yemen isn't taking the threat seriously enough. In July, General David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, visited the country to encourage President Ali Abdullah Saleh to be more aggressive. "The view from Sana'a doesn't match the view from Washington," says Gregory Johnsen, a U.S. expert on Yemen. "The Yemeni government is much more concerned with fighting the Houthis in Saada and with the secessionists in the south. Al-Qaeda ranks a distant third. The government doesn't see it as a Yemeni problem. [It sees it as] a foreign problem...
...small, fifth-floor walk-up on the Lower East Side of New York City, we, along with singer Mary Travers, explored the musical boundaries of a nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb," in search of a vocal blend. What we--the members of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary--found instead was rapport, affection and a calling that lasted nearly 50 years...
...York Times who was also a Crimson news editor.“My only hesitation coming here was that I remember Sanders Theater from taking Ec 10 in this room,” Kristof said, drawing laughter from audience members.Kristof, whose research regarding the social injustice women face in East Asian countries is chronicled in his new book “Half the Sky.” He urged audience members to partake in “a cause larger than ourselves.”“Helping people is harder than it looks,” Kristof said...
...This is a sound policy. If U.S. forces were not in Afghanistan, the Taliban, with its al-Qaeda allies in tow, would seize control of the country's south and east and might even take it over entirely. A senior Afghan politician told me that the Taliban would be in Kabul within 24 hours without the presence of international forces. This is not because the Taliban is so strong; generous estimates suggest it numbers no more than 20,000 fighters. It is because the Afghan government and the 90,000-man Afghan army are still so weak...