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...through his loyal corps commander, Akhtar Usmani. A native of Helmand, Usmani's a pragmatist, not a die-hard jihadi, and if the tide turns seriously against the Taliban in the southern provinces, he might step forward and negotiate Kandahar's surrender. He's held in check, to some extent by the 25-year old police chief, Hafez Majid (Mullah Omar owes the kid his life for pulling him out the wreckage after a truck bomb destroyed his house in Kandahar several years back.) Majid is fanatically devoted to Mullah Omar. In Kandahar, the other key player is the governor...
Across the University, financial officers said that national economic circumstances had altered expectations about future spending—but not to the extent of the Kennedy School...
Harvard’s grade inflation would also be problematic if grades were run up so much that a grade here was not regarded as equal to the same grade at other institutions. This is not now a problem, nor ever will it ever be, since to whatever extent it does exist, grade inflation is a national problem, and not one indigenous to Harvard. Unfortunately, we hear more about inflation here than an other institutions because of certain highly vocal gadflies in our faculty, and also because of what Ross G. Douthat ’02 labeled...
...extent that retailers saw an economic slowdown coming when they placed their Christmas-season orders back in July - and spent October frantically slashing prices and ponying up incentives trying to lure Sept.11-shocked shoppers back into stores (we're looking at you, car dealers), this season could actually see rather slim pickings on the shelves if shoppers - whether out of patriotism, a determination to act normal, or an urge to get the kids a few extra toys with all this tragedy around - turn out in any force...
...extent that nobody could have seen this economic slowdown coming, and shoppers are as reticent as everyone thinks, there's still going to be a lot more inventory to be slashed. That's bad news for retailers, bad news for the economy - it shouldn't delay the recovery much, but it'll make the interim a lot more painful - and still more bad news for manufacturers and anyone else whose job depends on the Great American commercialism normally associated with the season. But it's good news to anybody who can get to the mall before all the decent stuff...