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...area has a long history of sending men to fight in Kashmir. Despite the risks, joining a militant network provides social mobility that is virtually unattainable in Pakistani society, giving the groups' members a sense of purpose and pride and elevating their status, says Muhammad Amir Rana, a Pakistani expert on extremist groups. And indeed, villagers have told journalists that when Qasab went home to see his family just before the Mumbai attacks, he was a changed man - calm, with a sense of purpose and able to demonstrate his new fighting skills. ((See pictures of a Jihadist's journey...
...Harvard Design School Professor Richard Peiser, an expert on real estate development, said that while Harvard’s slowdown in Allston might initially discourage investment in the neighborhood, the University’s presence will have a positive impact on property value and the attractiveness of Allston in the long run. He added that many of the vacant properties were designed for industrial and office use, making them difficult to sell on the retail market...
Between Coverage and Safety Net Pat's decision to save some money by buying short-term insurance was a big mistake, says Karen Pollitz, project director of Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and a leading expert on the individual-insurance market. "These short-term policies are a joke," she says. "Nobody should ever buy them. It is false security that is being sold. It's junk...
...question is whether Raúl is on the same page. Was his shake-up at Cuba's Foreign Ministry actually intended to encourage a U.S. change in Cuba policy? On the one hand, says Frank Mora, a Cuba expert at the National War College in Washington, "putting in someone who's a technocrat and not an ideologue will be perceived as a small sign of something positive in Washington." Then again, says Mora, it's difficult to tell if it also indicates that Raúl is "preparing himself for the eventuality of Washington making more of these gestures...
...something of a surprise because one of the studies was conducted by General David Petraeus, whose counterinsurgency doctrine and strategic brilliance turned the tide in the Iraq war. In this case, Petraeus brought in hundreds of people from a range of government agencies and a raft of outside experts. "You had people from the Department of Agriculture weighing in," one expert, a Petraeus admirer who participated in the study, told me. "There were too many cooks. The end result was lowest-common-denominator stuff. The usual Petraeus acuity wasn't there...