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...have a videographer here who films your life all the time. Explain to me your logic behind this decision. What do you think you’ve gained...
...Leah” maintains coherence. While it provides plenty to think about, and the ending sheds some light on the play’s central meaning, there are still multiple interpretations to choose from—and it’s not evident that any individual one will fully explain the play’s complexities. The great benefit of absurdism, though, is that comprehension—or even coherence—doesn’t really seem to matter...
...kind Moscow experienced on Monday. Yet the vendettas that Giorgberidze described are widespread throughout the Caucasus, parts of which have been ruled from Moscow in one way or another for two centuries. That history of subjugation, along with the desperate poverty afflicting most of the region, helps explain the apparent ease with which insurgents have been able to recruit new fighters, both men and women. As a result, violent incidents in the North Caucasus jumped from 281 in the summer of 2008 to 470 a year later, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies...
Reports of sexual assault in the military increased 11% last year, according to a Department of Defense study released on March 16. While the study did not conclusively explain the increase, the Pentagon called the rise in reports "encouraging" and suggested that a 2005 sexual-assault-policy overhaul might be part of the reason more victims have come forward. The study also highlighted a 16% increase in sexual assaults occurring in combat areas. The typical case involved an 18-to-25-year-old enlisted male and a female victim (either military or civilian). The report estimates that only...
...officials suspect that Hekmatyar made his peace overture to Karzai only after getting a nod from the Pakistani military establishment. Pakistani officials are keen to demonstrate to the Obama Administration that reconciliation between Karzai and the insurgents can succeed, but only if Pakistan makes it happen. That may also explain the recent arrests of 14 senior Taliban commanders in Pakistan - according to the U.N. and Afghan officials in Kabul, some of those held by Pakistan had been engaged in secret talks, and were more open to a peace deal than their hard-core brethren inside the movement's war council...