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Defense Secretary Robert Gates was even more blunt: "If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of a Central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose," Gates told Congress. "Because nobody in the world has that much time, patience or money, to be honest." (See pictures of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Mission Creep: Back to Nation-Building | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

But now a quiet revolution is under way. Over the past few years, a handful of aid organizations and governments - including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development - have begun distributing zinc supplements to villagers in Bangladesh, India, Mali and Pakistan. Several other groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can One Pill Tame the Illness No One Wants to Talk About? | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

Surprisingly, many of the state's veteran political observers and activists say no. "It's going to require an insurgency campaign, kind of a storming the gates with pitchforks and torches kind of campaign," says strategist Mark Nevins, who advised Hillary Clinton in her successful primary campaign in Pennsylvania last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Joe Sestak Buck the Odds Against Arlen Specter? | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

The commencement speaker, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, did not focus specifically on the tasks at hand in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, he strove to arm those cadets with an ideal of leadership, telling them, “I've come to believe that few people are born great leaders. When...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Phaneuf | Title: We Who Never Set a Squadron in the Field | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

Harvard today is lucky to house many naturally-gifted individuals, but as Gates admitted, “few people are born great leaders.” As Harvard students, selected for our abilities and given every advantage, we should be expected to become stewards for the rest of our society...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Phaneuf | Title: We Who Never Set a Squadron in the Field | 8/11/2009 | See Source »

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