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...reportedly criticizes the Pakistan army for a "reluctance" to launch an all-out confrontation with the militants, military spokesmen point out that the Pakistan army has lost over 1,500 troops since it began confronting militants on its own soil. And they see the tide turning in their favor in the ten-week-old military operation in Bajaur, where they say the Taliban last week offered negotiations - a sign, say government officials, that the militants' resolve is weakening. "It was the first time that the government rejected an offer of peace," says Mehmood Shah, a former chief secretary for Pakistan...
...because he held the gun in a certain way. You require something vastly more structural. Let's go back to roots. Let's do real things. Let's have more transparency, fewer complicated products we don't understand. Let's generate economic growth by old traditional ways, let's favor technology companies, let's not favor all this financial bulls---. Because it was a Ponzi scheme, I don't know any other way to call...
...year’s critically acclaimed “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?” sees the reintroduction of alter-ego Georgie Fruit (see: Aladdin Sane), but sheds some of that album’s tight electronic instrumentals and most of its sense of structure in favor of a much looser approach and a more funk-driven sound. And while Of Montreal have always been theatrical and a bit all over the place, “Skeletal Lamping” is disjointed to the point where even the idea of dividing it into its 15 distinct tracks...
...fact, the current round of attention could work in the far right's favor, says Hofer. Haider was a divisive figure who once referred to the members of Nazi Germany's Waffen SS as deserving of as much honor as any German soldier, and who praised Hitler's employment policies. But the emotion and media frenzy around his death, which Hofer compares to England's trauma over the passing of Princess Diana, has distracted people from Haider's far-right legacy. Haider's party will contest elections in the province of Carinthia next spring. Few observers doubt that the party...
...This is a unique moment in which we have to do something unprecedented in favor of the survival of our human civilization,” Gore said. “If we are to accept that goal, we must find ways to make better use of the knowledge produced in universities...and supply their best and most recent conclusions as a basis for decision making...