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Karzai isn't naturally imposing. In person, his slight frame, drawn countenance and trimmed white beard make him look a decade older than his 48 years. "If I adopt a style of not consulting, and of doing it alone, the country will not have the kind of harmony it has today," he says. "My problem is perhaps that I'm too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those." Of course, what Karzai...
...threat to America - an issue that has tended to favor Republicans. The question of what legal rights Congress should legislate for detained terror suspects is also highly contentious, and putting it on the legislative agenda less than a month before the pre-election recess is clearly an attempt to frame the national conversation on terms least favorable to the Democrats...
...Over in the Lower Ninth Ward, one of the hardest-hit African-American neighborhoods, landlord Donald Thomas has much the same hope. A paper mask over his mouth, Thomas is using a crowbar to pull nails from the frame of the house he grew up in and now rents out. Unemployed since Katrina flooded the Hyatt and took his job as a banquet captain, he is spending his time renovating. The city is in dire need of rental housing like his, since Katrina destroyed some 43,000 units, including 5,000 public housing apartments. Standing in the doorway...
Advocate: 1. The Harvard Advocate, a literary magazine that has been known to disseminate the ramblings of the crusty upper crust. 2. Crumbling wood-frame structure behind Noch’s which may or may not still be standing by the time you graduate...
...Barton says walking through the audience to the stage "adds something new." But what he brings to the world of classical music is both something new and something ancient: encoded in the 25-year-old's commanding frame is the gravitas of tradition. Considered by many to be the world's oldest wind instrument, the didgeridoo has been played at Aboriginal ceremonies for thousands of years. But what Barton calls "the most simple instrument in the world-just a branch of tree minus termites," is radically new to the classical stage. "It's one of those things where...