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After a long journey that saw Munoz fight off a head injury in Nicaragua, squeeze between trucks in a Chinese tunnel, and hitchhike for food in the deserts of Latin America, the rower is satisfied that the ride allowed him such a diverse set of life experiences...
...heard it and I came outside,” he said. “I heard some yelling, sounded like a fight...
...used as weapons into school, they are engaging in inherently unsafe actions. Even if, as in Christie’s case, the weapon is innocently brought in out of excitement or pride, dangerous situations can result. Christie could have taken out the knife in anger during a fight, or another student could have stolen it from him; in both cases, his intent in bringing the weapon into school may have been completely innocent but still could have culminated in a risky situation. Zero-tolerance policies are necessary to keep students safe from any such contingencies; they cannot be invoked...
...Taliban, involving shutting out al-Qaeda and some form of power-sharing with the elected government - would require convincing the insurgents that they can't win on the battlefield. Surging tens of thousands more U.S. troops into the Afghan theater may be necessary if the goal is simply to fight this one to a tie. (Logistical constraints, however, suggest that the surge may be more of a dribble, with the U.S. currently lacking the capability to deploy more than about 4,000 new troops in Afghanistan each month...
...Afghan security forces. But in the near term, the Afghan National Army (ANA) will be little more than a sidebar to the deployment of thousands more U.S. troops to hold the line against the Taliban. The ANA ostensibly numbers some 95,000 troops right now, but its capacity to fight the Taliban remains difficult to assess. It is certainly not immune to the political conflicts driving the insurgency; it is dominated by an ethnic Tajik officer corps viewed with resentment by Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, the Pashtuns, who are also the Taliban's social base. Training may be just...