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...will want to return as well. Marjah is too big a prize - for its drug revenue and its propaganda value - to give up. Unlike the drug traffickers, insurgent fighters didn't have to go very far to hide from McChrystal's troops. Abdul Rahman Jan, a tribal elder and former Helmand-province police chief, points out that "hardly a single gun was captured by the NATO forces." He believes that many of the Taliban fighters simply moved back from their quarters inside Marjah's mosques and madrasahs to stay with their families. Wherever they are, the insurgents will keep...
SARAH PALIN, former governor of Alaska, admitting that her family used to go to Canada for medical treatment when she was a child; Canada has a single-payer system, which Palin opposes...
After he retired as an MP in 1992, Foot turned down the peerage the Queen traditionally bestows on former party leaders. "I think the House of Lords ought to be abolished," he said, explaining his decision. "I don't think the best way for me to abolish it is to go there myself...
Despite failed ballot-counting systems and allegations of fraud, Faure Gnassingbe, son of Togo's former dictator, declared victory after the nation's March 4 presidential election. Supporters of opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre held demonstrations that were quickly broken up by police wielding tear gas and water cannons. Gnassingbe's family has ruled Togo for 43 years; he has led since...
...scathing Boston Globe op-ed, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 and engineering Professor Frederick H. Abernathy labeled the Corporation “a dangerous anachronism” and argued that it is “too small, too closed, and too secretive to be intensely self-critical, as any responsible board must...