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Others may fault Dashboard for their unoriginal lyrics, pop-emo sound, and general lack of angsty po-mo sophistication...
...Critics fault Karzai and the 26,000 allied troops in Afghanistan for failing to strengthen institutions like the police. In Kandahar, Asadullah Khalid, the governor, is desperate to counter Taliban propaganda with a more robust police force. He estimates that he has only 40 officers for every 100,000 citizens. (By comparison, New York City has 40 officers for every 8,000 civilians.) He says he has petitioned Karzai's government for funding for a larger police force but says he has received little response. The police situation in Kandahar province is emblematic of the country as a whole. That...
...guilt over the often evident if rarely admitted preference they harbor for one child over another--the sensitive mom who goes gooey over her son the poet, the hard-knocks dad who adores his tough-as-nails daughter. If favorites exist, however, it may be not the parents' fault, but evolution...
...company that makes Legos has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Mexico. Lego employees say it's their own fault because they made the factory too easy to take apart and rebuild somewhere else." CONAN O'BRIEN...
...data indicating that the number of children born and living in Cambridge has declined over the past several decades. Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn repeatedly interrupted the presentation, drawing conclusions from each data set in an attempt to attribute the decline more to population trends than to any fault of the school system’s. Nolan and Fowler-Finn engaged each other in debate repeatedly throughout the night, with Nolan even preparing her own data that showed enrollment over the past four years for the towns and cities in metropolitan Boston. To refute the charge that Cambridge...