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...political campaigning in SL isn’t just a French hobby to fill the hours leftover from the 35-hour workweek. Indeed, SL may be the frontier of Internet campaign advertising in the U.S. too. Supporters of the Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards campaigns have already set up de-facto headquarters and social organizations for their respective camps. Recently, a virtual Capitol Hill was also constructed to encourage civic discussion...
...this has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden but with Mirza Ali Khan, a Pashtun holy man who revolted against the British in the late 1930s. For nearly a decade, the British army chased him and his followers through the remotest reaches of Waziristan and the Northwest Frontier Province-the same ground where allied troops have spent the past five years searching fruitlessly for bin Laden, and where the remnants of Afghanistan's Taliban fled to lick their wounds and recover their strength. The region was then, as it is today, a powder keg of fractious tribes and fundamentalist...
...Delhi, this was no minor uprising of petty bandits. Intelligence estimates at the time counted 400,000 fighting men among the various Pashtun tribes, at least half of them armed with modern rifles. The insurgency forced the British to commit as many as 40,000 troops to the frontier, and, as World War II raged, to station a permanent garrison there even as the Japanese advanced steadily into Burma...
...bases. "I doubt whether Washington in 2007 knows much more about what is happening in Waziristan than London did in 1937," says Alan Warren, a military historian and author of a book on Khan. If so, as with the elusive Fakir of Ipi, the heirs of that British frontier force of old might, too, never get their...
...tells us, the growing middle class view was against the expansion of a government that favored any special interest group outside of themselves. If one was industrious, they would not need any special treatment from the government. Much of Richardson’s focus is on the disappearing Western frontier, which provided the ideal of the hardworking individual free from eastern corruption and big government that Middle America lauded. But, Richardson reminds us, everyone had their place. Women receiving a greater public voice was only okay when they were doing feminine things, like improving conditions for their children. Middle class...