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...government of Hamid Karzai in Kabul says it wants to put an end to rule by local magnates, yet in a series of quick-fix deals, it has put them in charge of places like Herat, Kandahar and Khost. In time, Karzai says, the local leaders will be replaced by professionals who are not part of local power structures. Anyone trying to do this in Khost could be in for a tough time. The brothers, fervent royalists, fly the royal banner from official buildings, not the current national flag, and pictures of deposed King Mohammed Zahir Shah adorn their cars...
...know why it is an issue, but how we fix it is another problem," continues Seiderman...
...that crashed last April in Arizona, killing all 19 Marines aboard, makes that all too clear: That craft had spent only 135 hours in the air since the Marines took delivery of it three months earlier. Yet it had required 600 repairs while the Marines had it - one fix for every 15 minutes it was flying...
...leave Brazil on Sunday, the last night of the concert. There is something wrong with the plane - a part has gone wrong, so they're going to try to fix the part (which could take three hours) or order the part (which could take two days). I decide that, in airline speak, the same argot which calls a muffin a breakfast and a strip of rotten chicken an entree, three hours means nine hours and "could take two days" means the plane is going down in a fiery ball of flame. I rebook my trip through Miami and figure...
When one branch of that structure wasn't working as it should have been, Summers acted aggressively to fix...