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...Sure, those in Bush II don't want to repeat the elder President Bush's mistake of losing the domestic ground while winning the foreign war, but the White House has seen great benefit from keeping the president out of the fray. It protects him politically, but it also gets results. "We maintained this posture and we got an airline security bill," says an administration member involved in the stimulus strategy. "How is that hurting...
...strategy was to sever the Taliban from its tribal links, winning over local chiefs with promises of peace and international aid. Karzai's men advanced from Uruzgan, north of Kandahar; on the other side of the city, thousands of armed men from southern border towns loyal to another tribal elder, Ghul Agha Sherzai, moved into positions in the hills in the east. A delegation of tribal elders led by Abdul Haqiq, a former mujahedin commander, spent three days with Taliban representatives negotiating the handover of Kandahar and three other southern Afghan provinces. Under the plan, Mullah Naqib, an ex-commander...
...strategy was to sever the Taliban from its tribal links, winning over local chiefs with promises of peace and international aid. Karzai's men advanced from Uruzgan, north of Kandahar; on the other side of the city, thousands of armed men from southern border towns loyal to another tribal elder, Ghul Agha Sherzai, moved into positions in the hills in the east. A delegation of tribal elders led by Abdul Haqiq, a former mujahedin commander, spent three days with Taliban representatives negotiating the handover of Kandahar and three other southern Afghan provinces. Under the plan, Mullah Naqib, an ex-commander...
...unlikely blend of tabloid luridness and brainy cultural commentary, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Awards, is held together by the voice of the elder Charlotte, corrosively cynical yet fearless in her honesty. She is the sort of woman who, as her career and its privileges evaporate, can calmly observe, "We are interchangeable--the first lesson one learns as a professional beauty." She asks, "How could I resist the offer of attention and money, the very polestars whose gleaming emanations had navigated my existence?" when she's approached by a creepy website that stage manages events...
...favorite skyscrapers, their lights festooning them as artful as a Disneyland castle. ?Stand here and you can see both the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building,? I would say, civic pride mingling with aesthetic awe as we indicated the world?s tallest glamorous building and its downtown elder brother, Cass Gilbert?s neo-Gothic Cathedral of Commerce. Then, sotto voce, I?d add with a dismissive wave, ?And the World Trade Center.? In our glittering family of commercial monuments, the towers were the hulking twins who could aspire to nothing more lofty than playing right and left tackle...