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...government in which people have hope would be one that offers them security. The U.S. exit strategy for Afghanistan, according to Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is to strengthen the Afghan forces so they can protect the fragile advances of the government. To that end, Obama has pledged 4,000 trainers and mentors, and European allies have promised more military trainers to help boost the Afghan National Army (ANA) and police...
...ready to work, as part of staged protest.More than 25 Harvard undergraduates, law students, medical students, and union members escorted the workers through the back entrance to Gordon Hall where they were met by security and administrators who told the protestors that they had three to four minutes to exit the building.“We’re from American Cleaning, and we want to work,” custodial workers told an administrator sitting behind a sign-in desk.American Cleaning Company—a subcontracted cleaning service that has worked with Harvard for the past year?...
...Even more surprising, relatively few of them are musicals, with their ready-made tourist appeal. And while there's the usual spate of revivals - from crowd-pleasing chestnuts (Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, starring a blithely ageless Angela Lansbury) to more challenging rediscoveries (Ionesco's Exit the King, with an all-stops-out performance by Geoffrey Rush) - what's really striking is the number of new plays that think they've found a home on the Great White Way. (See the top 10 plays and musicals...
...your patience: Robert McDonald, a Scottish traveler who was stuck aboard a Delta flight for more than two-and-half hours at New York City's JFK airport on March 31, had apparently lost his cool. In an attempt to deplane, McDonald allegedly yanked open the aircraft's emergency exit door while the plane was on the tarmac. The crew says it stopped him from opening the door fully and deploying the emergency chute, but, in the end, McDonald got his wish. He got off the plane - albeit with a police escort. He now faces up to a year...
...seeing Afghanistan as inextricably linked to Pakistan's existential conflict with India. Many in Pakistan's security establishment see the government of President Hamid Karzai as first and foremost a close ally of India's, and therefore a rival to Pakistan's strategic interests. The Obama Administration's exit strategy is unlikely to change that outlook. As long as Pakistan remains in conflict with India, the country's military establishment will be reluctant to "put all its eggs in the American basket," as a Pakistani analyst put it. (Read "Avoiding a Quagmire in Afghanistan...