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...biggest foreign policy problem Obama faces is Afghanistan. Indeed, it is an issue that has divided his foreign policy team for the first time. I'm told the Secretaries of both State and Defense and National Security Adviser Jim Jones warily favor the military's request for more troops. But Vice President Joe Biden and, perhaps, the President remain skeptics - and rightly so, since any military policy depends on whether the Afghan government can regain some credibility after the flagrantly corrupt August elections. If Hamid Karzai limps into a second term but does not make some major reforms - like removing...
...many companies, these uninstructed broker votes may have constituted 10% or 20% of the vote, and with those votes no longer going in favor of management's candidates, it's going to naturally push up the percentages of opposition votes," Fenn says...
...Learning from mistakes, attempting to repeat one’s successes: Those sound more like accessible middle-class values than like the innate inspiration or providential favor once attributed to exceptional persons. Indeed, as much as Americans treasure the idea of genius—“Baby Genius” and “Baby Einstein” CD lines offer ambitious mothers-to-be the chance to transform their prenatals into intellectuals—we shy away from the suggestion of any hidden Mozarts in our midst...
Journalists often stand accused of neglecting good news in favor of bad. And on Monday evening, some of the most eminent names in British journalism seemed frankly perplexed at how to handle a piece of good news: namely, that their employer, the Observer, had been saved from the chop. They had called a meeting in London to plot a campaign to rescue the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. Despite news of the paper's reprieve, they assembled anyway. As the room filled to capacity and then filled beyond capacity, one Observer writer wondered aloud at the size of the turnout...
...team captain said.But his teammate emphasized that the Crimson isn’t affected by the reputation of its opponent, no matter the media attention.“We go out and impose our identity on the other teams and it works out in our favor,” junior Robert Millock said.The Demon Deacons boasted an undefeated record of their own until they fell to No. 20 Virginia 1-0 last Friday. The game also marked the end of the team’s 35-game home win streak.However, Wake Forest has proven itself among the college soccer elite...